can't seem to get openssh-*

[Steve Lamb]

Karl Auer wrote:
> OK - I am still trying to figure out under what circumstances items are
> "kept back". Are they kept back if upgrading them would cause the
> installation of a new package, for example? In this case the
> openssh-blacklist package was new...

    I think that is exactly the case.

> In a couple of locations people have suggested using "dist-upgrade" but
> as I understand it, that would try to upgrade me from Feisty to Gutsy,
> which I don't want.

    Yeah.  I rarely upgrade.  I install what I need and leave the rest well
enough alone.  I only upgrade once every few months.  There really should be a
security upgrade command, though.  Pull the security related changes, ignore
the rest.

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