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Ulrich Scholz wrote:

> 2) When I release the mouse button and the scroll bar stays at the new
> position, Emacs selects the text between the old and the new position
> (it is highlighted). How can I stop Emacs from doing so? In other
> words: no selection, buffer-altering, etc.
[...]
> GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.0)
> of 2010-03-29 on rothera, modified by Debian

Try upgrading to a Debian version greater than or equal to 23.1+1-6:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560573