Aptitude insists to install dummy packages

["][" <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com>]

Hi, 

I have mplayer & mencoder installed from debian-multimedia [1].

When I checked Aptitude's internal database using 

  aptitude install -fsD

I get 

The following packages are BROKEN:

mencoder (C: mencoder-k6) mplayer (C: mplayer-k6)
sysvinit (P: file-rc, P: sysv-rc, P: sysvinit-utils) 
The following packages will be automatically REMOVED:
  file-rc 
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  ... mencoder-k6 mplayer-doc mplayer-k6 ...

But mplayer-k6 is only a dummy package, and 
it conflicts with mplayer [2]. 

Why aptitude still wants to install such packages?
Why aptitude wants to remove my essential file-rc package?

Aptitude actually reports more than above [3]. I only list
packages that I know well.

thanks

[1]

$ apt-cache policy mplayer
mplayer:
  Installed: 1:1.0-rc1-0.0
  Candidate: 1:1.0-rc1-0.0
  Version table:
 *** 1:1.0-rc1-0.0 0
        600 http://debian-multimedia.gnali.org etch/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.0~rc1-11 0
        600 http://mirror.peer1.net etch/main Packages
         50 http://mirror.peer1.net unstable/main Packages

$ apt-cache policy mencoder
mencoder:
  Installed: 1:1.0-rc1-0.0
  Candidate: 1:1.0-rc1-0.0
  Version table:
 *** 1:1.0-rc1-0.0 0
        600 http://debian-multimedia.gnali.org etch/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[2]

$ apt-cache show mplayer-k6
[...]
Dummy package to upgrade to the new mplayer package.

$ apt-cache show mplayer
[...]
Replaces: mplayer-386, mplayer-586, mplayer-k6 [...]
[...]
Conflicts: mplayer-386, mplayer-586, mplayer-k6 [...]

[3]

The following packages are BROKEN:
  acroread-plugins (D: acroread-escript) initscripts (D: sysvinit-utils) 
  kwtools-sys (D: file-rc, D: sysv-rc) ldap-utils (D: libsasl2-2) 
  libldap-2.3-0 (D: libsasl2-2) libsasl2 (D: libsasl2-2) 
  libsasl2-modules (D: libsasl2-2) mencoder (C: mencoder-k6) 
  mplayer (C: mplayer-k6) netbase (D: inet-superserver, D: openbsd-inetd) 
  ntfs-3g (D: libntfs-3g0) perl-modules (C: libnet-perl) 
  sasl2-bin (D: libsasl2-2) sendfile (D: update-inetd) 
  sendmail-bin (D: libsasl2-2) 
  sysvinit (P: file-rc, P: sysv-rc, P: sysvinit-utils) 
  w3-el-e21 (D: w3-url-e21) w3m (D: libgc1c2) 
The following packages will be automatically REMOVED:
  file-rc 
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  bittorrent libnet-perl mencoder-k6 mplayer-doc mplayer-k6 podracer 
  realplayer samba 
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  file-rc libgc1c2 libntfs-3g0 libsasl2-2 openbsd-inetd rdiff{p} 
  realtime-lsm{p} realtime-lsm-module-2.6.17-grml{p} sjog{p} slapd{p} 
  speechd-up{p} steghide{p} sysvinit-utils t-prot{p} tagtool{p} tk-brief{p} 
  update-inetd w3-url-e21{p} w3m-img{p} weblint-perl{p} xcardii{p} 
  xfaces{p} xosd-bin{p} 


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