I don't want to dump a ton of data into this message, so I'll cover the highlights. System is darn-near fully patched against lenny.
$ sudo apt-get -s upgrade | egrep '(ssh|spamassassin)' | grep Inst Inst openssh-server [1:4.7p1-4] (1:4.7p1-5 Debian:testing) [] Inst openssh-client [1:4.7p1-4] (1:4.7p1-5 Debian:testing) Inst spamassassin [3.2.3-1] (3.2.4-1 Debian:testing) Inst ssh [1:4.7p1-4] (1:4.7p1-5 Debian:testing) $ sudo apt-get install spamassassin Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: liberror-perl libmail-spf-perl libnetaddr-ip-perl libversion-perl Suggested packages: libmail-dkim-perl libnet-ident-perl pyzor Recommended packages: gcc libc6-dev libsys-syslog-perl re2c The following NEW packages will be installed liberror-perl libmail-spf-perl libnetaddr-ip-perl libversion-perl The following packages will be upgraded: spamassassin 1 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded. Need to get 1379kB of archives. After this operation, 1200kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n Abort. If you look at http://packages.debian.org/lenny/spamassassin, libmail-spf-perl is a recommended, not a required. If I try to upgrade openssh-client openssh-server and ssh: The following extra packages will be installed: cpp cpp-4.2 gcc-4.2-base libx11-6 libx11-data libxau6 libxdmcp6 libxext6 libxmuu1 x11-common xauth cpp isn't even listed in the web page. Has something changed that I'm not aware of, or are these bad packages that I should chalk up to "hey, that's what you get for not running stable"? Thanks for any insight. _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Hotmail is giving away Zunes. http://www.windowslive-hotmail.com/ZuneADay/?locale=en-US&ocid=TXT_TAGLM_Mobile_Zune_V3
