dselect behaves differently in 2 similar situations?

[Jeronimo Pellegrini <pellegrini@iname.com>]

Hello,

  I have a woody box here... A few days ago, I did an upgrade from
  within dselect, and had ssh installed, but not with libssl09 (on
  which it depends). I installed libssl09a, and forced the install
  with the "Q" key when prompted to solve the dependency/conflict
  problem... Things worked well, and I actually used ssh with no
  problems (as far as I could see). (I wanted libssl09a because I also
  installed openssl)

  But today the ssh package was upgraded... So I tried to upgrade
  using dselect... There was the same problem, and I tried to force
  the same thing as before (keep libssl09a installed and don't install
  libssl09), hit "Q"... And all right, I was in the main menu
  again. Then, when I asked dselect to [I]nstall, it said the only
  thing it'd do was to remove ssh!!!

  I also tried apt-get with all relevant options I saw in the manpage,
  but it also refused to do anything but removing ssh. Both ssh
  packages have the very same dependencies, and the only difference is
  that the installed version "Provides: rsh-server":

Version: 1:1.2.3-6
Provides: rsh-server
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2), libpam0g, libssl09, libwrap0, libz1, libpam-modules, libwrap0 (>= 7.6-1.1)
Suggests: ssh-askpass, debconf
Conflicts: ssh-nonfree, ssh-socks, ssh2, debconf (<< 0.2.17), debconf-tiny (<< 0.2.17)

Version: 1:1.2.3-8
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2), libpam0g, libssl09, libwrap0, libz1, libpam-modules, libwrap0 (>= 7.6-1.1)
Suggests: ssh-askpass, debconf
Conflicts: ssh-nonfree, ssh-socks, ssh2, debconf (<< 0.2.17), debconf-tiny (<< 0.2.17)


Well.. Is there any way to upgrade ssh only, other than ftping to
ftp.debian.org, getting the .deb file and then using dpkg manually?

And -- this is what's puzzling me -- why would dselect now refuse to
do something it did just a few days ago? As far as I remember, it was
not even upgraded (so I'd have the same dselect program behaving
differently in 2 similar situations)...

Thanks,
J.

-- 
Jeronimo Pellegrini
Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil
http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo
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