(solved) apt is holding back audacious since some time

[vilde]

I wonder if it's only for me? Apt is holding back audacious and audacious-plugins-data from being upgraded since some time. I think I have the same on some other machine here.

[piper]

I don't have this package installed

What does

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apt-mark showhold

say

[tommy2]

I had the same problem and beings I don't use it I just removed it and reinstalled it and everything was back to normal. It was fine on my other computer, why we or "I" was experiencing the problem I can't answer, however a reinstall did the trick for me.
t2

[vilde]

@ piper, no there is nothing on hold here.


I did reinstall by doing "apt install audacious" and some plugins were removed and some new was installed. Maybe it had something to do with some (already done) transitions before like the qt?

Now audacious is updated and the problem is gone.

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apt install audacious
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  audacious-plugins audacious-plugins-data libaudcore5 libaudgui5
  libaudtag3
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  audacious-base-plugins audacious-gtk-plugins
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  audacious-plugins libaudcore5 libaudgui5 libaudtag3
The following packages will be upgraded:
  audacious audacious-plugins-data
2 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1938 kB of archives.
After this operation, 976 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]


[melmarker]

Let the old packages go - the experimental qt frontend was removed afaik.

[vilde]

Let the old packages go - the experimental qt frontend was removed afaik.

I did and the case is solved.

It doesn't really matter but just for curiosity and I know that some of you say apt is "magic" but why is this done with "apt install audacious" and not in a regular "apt dist-upgrade"?