Today's Kernel Update - Am I seeing what is supposed to happen....

[Scott Kitterman]

I ran apt-get update and then apt-get -V upgrade on my development server and 
got the following:

apt-get -V upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
   linux-image-server (2.6.15.22 => 2.6.15.23)
The following packages will be upgraded:
   linux-server (2.6.15.22 => 2.6.15.23)
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Inst linux-server [2.6.15.22] (2.6.15.23 Ubuntu:6.06/dapper-security)
Conf linux-server (2.6.15.23 Ubuntu:6.06/dapper-security)

Now I understand the linux-image-server is a meta package that always depends 
on the latest kernel.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/base/linux-image-server

So, I assume that since I've installed linux-server (2.6.15.23 
Ubuntu:6.06/dapper-security), my system is actually current and, for 
practical purposes, correctly configured.

Then I decided to see if I could get linux-image-server to install and so I 
tried:

apt-get -V upgrade linux-image-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
   linux-image-server (2.6.15.22 => 2.6.15.23)
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

So, that didn't work...

Then I went for apt-get -V install linux-image-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
   linux-image-2.6.15-25-server (2.6.15-25.43)
Suggested packages:
   linux-doc-2.6.15 (2.6.15-25.43)
   linux-source-2.6.15 (2.6.15-25.43)
Recommended packages:
   lilo (22.6.1-7ubuntu2)
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   linux-image-2.6.15-25-server (2.6.15-25.43)
The following packages will be upgraded:
   linux-image-server (2.6.15.22 => 2.6.15.23)
1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 23.1MB of archives.
After unpacking 67.3MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.

I got a bit nervous at the additional 67.3MB of space this package says it 
will take.  

This server was built from a downloaded version of the Ubuntu 6.06 final CD 
server install.

Does is matter if I install the new version of linux-image-server?  Will it 
help/hurt with dependency resolution for future updates?

Scott K