Bug#44800: boot-floppies: apt can't install the boot-floppies package

[Matt Armstrong <matt@mistera.lickey.com>]

Package: boot-floppies
Version: N/A
Severity: important

boot-floppies needs to depend on newt0.30.  newt0.25 is no longer part of
potato.  Dunno what the story is with popt.

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mistera# apt-get install boot-floppies
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
  boot-floppies: Depends: newt0.25 but it is not installable
                 Depends: newt0.25-dev but it is not installable
	         Depends: popt but it is not installable
E: Sorry, broken packages
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-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux mistera 2.2.5 #1 Thu Apr 22 09:07:02 PDT 1999 i586 unknown