How to tell which package is holding back which package

[baggepinnen]

I implemented something like that a while back that worked for Julia v0.6. It would have to be updated to work now, but here it is for inspiration

How to find package preventing others from updating

While trying to upgrade a package I found that some other package held it back with an upper version bound. To track down the offending package, I found the following function useful function find_holdback(held_back_package, recursive = 0, installed = collect(keys(Pkg.installed())), inset=0) @assert held_back_package ∈ installed "The package you are querying is not installed" for package in installed REQUIRE = Pkg.dir(package, "REQUIRE") isfile(REQUIRE) || continue …