obsolete packages in dselect

["A. Scott White" <scottw@coderite.com>]

I recently upgraded to Potato and Linux 2.2.15

Now, when I go into dselect->select several packages are listed as Obsolete.
What, exactly, does this mean? Should I remove these packages?

Thanks.

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A. Scott White
Director of Information Systems and Product Strategy
Healthcare Solutions Group
Affiliated Computer Services, Inc.
scottw@coderite.com
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