Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > dselect will only show you the latest version of a package. In fact the > version you want may no longer exist.
Which is why /var/cache/apt/archives is your friend. I wrote a script to run through that directory and delete all but the most recent two versions of all packages. This way I have an escape route if the newest version has problems, and /var/cache/apt/archives keeps to a reasonable size. Craig