So I've been trying to get this to work out for a while... and I am finaly getting somewhere.
I've been able to upgrade my jessie system, but have had to hold back the following 4 packages :
flatpack
libostree-1-1
gitlab-ce
openjdk-8-doc
using dpkg, such as...
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echo "openjdk-8-doc hold"| sudo dpkg --set-selections
But now I would like to upgrade to Stretch, and this fails due to the hold on these packages. I don't particularly want to remove them entirely (I have some data, particularly on my local gitlab-ce) that I would like to keep, the others however I could remove and re-install after the upgrade.
Of course I'm beginning to think that backing up my gitlab-ce data may be the best solution ! remove - upgrade - then re-install everything after the upgrade. But that seems like a lot of work.
Any help or suggestions will be gratefully accepted.
thanks in advance
David