Bug#35931: apt: apt refuses when one package is damaged

[Thomas Osterried <thomas@x-berg.in-berlin.de>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.3.4

x-berg: /root # apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back
  guitar libgtkmm fvwm 
35 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 9888kb/19.9Mb of archives. After unpacking 3536kb will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main tetex-base 0.9.990406-1 [6684kb]
Fetched 1b in 11s (0b/s)              
E: MD5Sum mismatch for package tetex-base
x-berg:/root # apt-get -fm dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back
  guitar libgtkmm fvwm 
35 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 9888kb/19.9Mb of archives. After unpacking 3536kb will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main tetex-base 0.9.990406-1 [6684kb]
Fetched 1b in 4s (0b/s)               
E: MD5Sum mismatch for package tetex-base
x-berg:/root # 

-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux x-berg 2.0.36 #8 Son Mär 14 21:41:51 MET 1999 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6           2.1.1-0.1      GNU C Library: shared libraries
ii  libstdc++2.9    2.91.61-1      The GNU stdc++ library (egcs version)