You can view and change each package's Status by choosing the Select option. It will then display a screenful of help. When you're done reading this, press space. Now you will see a list of packages that looks something like this:

EIOM Pri Section  Package      Inst.ver    Avail.ver   Description
      All packages
        Newly available packages
          New Important packages
            New Important packages in section admin
  n* Imp admin    at           <none>      3.1.8-10    Delayed job execution and
  n* Imp admin    cron         <none>      3.0pl1-57.3 management of regular bac
  n* Imp admin    logrotate    <none>      3.2-11      Log rotation utility
            New Important packages in section doc
  n* Imp doc      info         <none>      4.0-4       Standalone GNU Info docum
  n* Imp doc      manpages     <none>      1.29-2      Man pages about using a L
            New Important packages in section editors
  n* Imp editors  ed           <none>      0.2-18.1    The classic unix line edi
  n* Imp editors  nvi          <none>      1.79-16a.1  4.4BSD re-implementation
            New Important packages in section interpreters
  n* Imp interpre perl-5.005   <none>      5.005.03-7. Larry Wall's Practical Ex
            New Important packages in section libs
  n* Imp libs     libident     <none>      0.22-2      simple RFC1413 client lib
  n* Imp libs     libopenldap- <none>      1.2.12-1    OpenLDAP runtime files fo
  n* Imp libs     libopenldap1 <none>      1.2.12-1    OpenLDAP libraries.
  n* Imp libs     libpcre2     <none>      2.08-1      Philip Hazel's Perl Compa