Hello Tixy,

Thank you for your help! Yes, I always use 'apt update' prior to upgrades! 
Thank you for asking.

Oddly enough, when I checked several hours later the changelog was finally 
there, dated June 24th. Perhaps this thread had something to do with it? The 
update went smoothly.
> It just means that version isn't available in the repositories. If you
> get a list by pointing a web broswer at last directory in that URL
> (https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/o/openssl/)
> you see 'u2' is the latest version.
>
> If you go to the package tracker at https://tracker.debian.org
> and search for 'openssl' you get to a page that shows under 'news' that
> the 'u3' version is 'embargoed'. Which means it's been produced but not
> publicly available, this is done when packages have security fixes for
> for vulnerabilities that haven't been publicly detailed yet.
> There's been at lot of news in recent days about bugs in openssl.
>
> This doesn't answer why your machine is trying to download this 'u3'
> version, perhaps it appeared transiently for a time your machine was
> trying to update.
>
> Have you tried running 'apt update' to refresh the package list on you
> computer.
>
> -- 
> Tixy
>

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