On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 10:36:28AM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Martin Schulze: > > > > - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Debian Security Advisory DSA 407-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze > > January 5th, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq > > - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Package : ethereal > > This showed up this morning with a couple of others (lftp, screen), so > I did apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade. That picked up the others but > not ethereal. Why is that? I had ethereal installed, though I've > never used it. > > It was easily sorted out with apt-get install ethereal; I just wonder > why it didn't come along with the other two updates.
Perhaps you installed ethereal from testing or unstable at one point, and so your version is newer than the provided security update. -- - mdz
