This example shows a fundamental difference to remember between apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade

The example is that I altered the repository for the 0ad game package from the default to the ppa for the 0ad (i.e. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wfg/0ad) . I then did a sudo apt-get update and then I did a sudo apt-get upgrade 0ad

Nothing wrong with that except that there is a new package dependancy for the 0ad game and this new to be installed package causes apt-get upgrade to hold the package upgrade.

To fix this you use sudo apt-get dist-upgrade instead. It will ask if you want to upgrade the packages and more importantly ask if you want to install any new packages rather than just holding them and not doing anything.