Strange dependencies with apt-get/dselect

[Jorge Santos <jsf@dep3.fciencias.unam.mx>]

Hello,

When I tried to upgrade with dselect it would try to uninstall
j2sdk1.3 and other packages even when there was no mention of them in
the dependencies problems screen.  Then I tried to run apt-get upgrade
and see what happened:

root@dep3$ apt-get upgrade                                                                        ~
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back
  eterm xspecs 
79 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2  not upgraded.
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
  eterm: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.97) but 2.2.4-1 is to be installed
  j2sdk1.3: Depends: java-common but 0.7 is to be installed
  libgnome-pilot0: Depends: libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0) but 1.2.10-1.2 is to be installed
                   Depends: libgnome32 (>= 1.2.0) but 1.2.13-9 is to be installed
                   Depends: libz1
  python-graphics: Depends: python-base (>= 1.5) but 1.5.2-16 is to be installed
  task-debian-devel: Depends: maint-guide but 1.0.2 is to be installed
  task-newbie-help: Depends: mc but 4.5.54-1.1 is to be installed
                    Depends: lynx
  task-tex: Depends: src2tex but 2.12h-5 is to be installed
            Depends: dviutils but 2.19-8 is to be installed
E: Internal Error, InstallPackages was called with broken packages!


Aren't this dependencies issues strange? j2sdk1.3 depends on
java-common, with no specific version mentioned, and java-common is
installed and at its newest version, and what about the dependencies
to newer packages not met?

Any ideas? What's going on?

TIA

jorge santos