Bug#44379: apt: apt-get counting again

[<kai@khms.westfalen.de>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.3.12
Severity: normal

What's wrong with this picture?

root@khms tty3 ~ # apt-get -um upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back
  textutils tetex-extra libdb2-dbg tetex-base whiptail gnome-games bigloo
  nfs-server mozilla scotty jadetex console-tools-data xdelta tetex-bin
  tetex-dev tetex-doc gettext netbase mswordview console-tools mysql-server
  dosemu recode rsync freetype-tools gdk-imlib-dev xpdf-i sdc wine rpm
  liblockfile-dev ical libwine-dev emacs19 mikmod timidity console-tools-dev
  ssltelnet kbd-compat libxml-dev console-tools-libs
The following packages will be upgraded
  aalib-bin aalib1 aalib1-dev apache apache-common bind bind-doc cpp ddd
  debhelper dnsutils g++ gcc glade gobjc gpc gpc-doc gperf isapnptools jade
  libapt-pkg-doc libstdc++2.10 libstdc++2.10-dev omniorb pstoedit rstart
  rstartd sp stat swig telnet twm umsdos vim-perl xbase xbase-clients xdm xext
  xf86setup xfree86-common xfs xli xlib6 xlib6-altdev xlib6-static xlib6g
  xlib6g-dev xlib6g-static xmh xnest xosview xproxy xprt xserver-common
  xserver-s3 xserver-vga16 xsm xterm xvfb
59 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 41 not upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 2171kB/54.8MB of archives. After unpacking 3717kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/non-free dnsutils 1:8.2.1-3 [500kB]
Get:2 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/non-free bind 1:8.2.1-3 [741kB]
Get:3 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/non-free bind-doc 1:8.2.1-3 [930kB]
Get:4 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main xbase-clients 3.3.4-2 [943kB]
Get:5 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main xterm 3.3.4-2 [304kB]
Get:6 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main xserver-common 3.3.4-2 [420kB]
Get:7 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main rstartd 3.3.4-2 [51.5kB]
Get:8 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main xlib6-altdev 3.3.4-2 [1290kB]
Get:9 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main xlib6g-dev 3.3.4-2 [1541kB]
99% [9 xlib6g-dev 918552/1541kB 59%]

(Hint: look at the sizes, and the "Need ..." line.)

-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux khms.westfalen.de 2.2.12-kai.34 #1 Sam Aug 28 19:43:42 CEST 1999 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6           2.1.2-0pre12   GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone
ii  libstdc++2.10   2.95.1-1       The GNU stdc++ library