Re: apt/dselect anomaly

[Marty <martyb@ix.netcom.com>]

Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 08:33:35PM -0400, Marty <martyb@ix.netcom.com> was heard to say:
> > I usually keep current with the Debian archive using apt-get.  Sometimes, 
> > however, I install programs using dselect.
> >
> > After upgrading to the latest Debian archive using apt-get update/upgrade,
> > I got the following message while running dselect:
> >
> > The following packages will be upgraded:
> >   openssh-client openssh-server
> >
> > It happened on two different similarly configured machines.
> >
> > I'm pretty sure this has never happened to me before.  I have always 
> > thought that upgrading using either apt-get or dselect (using the apt 
> > method) were equivalent, at least with respect to staying current with 
> > the archive.
> >
> > Am I missing something major?  Thanks for any illumination.
>
>   The latest version of openssh-server depends on openssh-blacklist due
> to the security problems with openssl that came up recently.  If you
> only use "apt-get upgrade", openssh-server won't get upgraded because
> "upgrade" refuses to install new packages.  Did openssh-blacklist get
> installed too when you used dselect?

Yes.  I had missed the warning about the kept back packages.  Thanks.

I have repeated the upgrade with another machine to confirm this explanation:

apt-get update/upgrade outputs in part:

The following packages have been kept back:
  openssh-client openssh-server
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libssl0.9.8 linux-source-2.6.18 openssl rdesktop ssh

dselect outputs in part:

The following NEW packages will be installed:
  openssh-blacklist
The following packages will be upgraded:
  openssh-client openssh-server
2 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.