Bug#138196: dpkg: pretends that libwmf0.2 is not installed

["José" Luis "González" <jlgg@operamail.com>]

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.9.19
Severity: normal

I am unable tu purge libxml2. dpkg claims libwmf0.2 depends on it and so
does not allow removal, but libwmf0.2 is not installed according to dpkg:

$ dpkg -P libwmf0.2
dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove libwmf0.2 which isn't installed.
$ dpkg -P libxml2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of libxml2:
 libwmf0.2-2 depends on libxml2 (>= 2.4.0-1).
dpkg: error processing libxml2 (--purge):
 dependency problems - not removing
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libxml2

I managed to get rid of libwmf0.2 with apg-get: apt-get remove libwmf0.2
removed it correctly. I did not try dpkg --remove.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Kernel Version: Linux ulises 2.4.17 #1 sáb dic 22 01:07:33 CET 2001 i486 unknown

Versions of the packages dpkg depends on:
ii  libc6          2.2.5-3        GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii  libncurses5    5.2.20020112a- Shared libraries for terminal handling
ii  libstdc++2.10- 2.95.4-1       The GNU stdc++ library