Bug#20471: 20471 what's going on?

[Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>]

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dpkg: considering removing kbd in favour of kbd-compat ...
dpkg: yes, will remove kbd in favour of kbd-compat.
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dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kbd-compat:
 kbd-compat depends on console-tools (>= 1997.10.28-1); however:
  Package console-tools is not installed.
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I don't understand why dpkg would start to install a package
with unmet dependencies and then abort at configuration time.

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Thomas