When I try an upgrade of my 8.04, it says:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages have been automatically kept back:
gnome-panel language-support-writing-ru
The following packages have been kept back:
f-spot gnome-applets grub initramfs-tools linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic
linux-restricted-modules-generic udev xserver-xorg
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 12 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done

Why is it keeping back those packages?
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