$ sudo aptitude purge dselect
Password:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  file-roller mutt nautilus nautilus-cd-burner totem totem-xine
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  dselect
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 426kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 128387 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing dselect ...
Purging configuration files for dselect ...
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done

Das tat gut! Mann, was war das mit potato ein Horror, damals! Ich habe nie wieder ein Programm gesehen, daß derart unintuitiv zu bedienen ist. Und seit heute ist die Dependency raus: Now that the woody->sarge upgrade can take place, dpkg no longer Pre-Depends on dselect. This means you can happily remove dselect from your system; there may be a "dpkg --purge dselect" party in your area.

Wär's nicht schon so spät, würd ich ein Bier aufmachen.