Bug#55373: apt: autoclean is sometimes broken

[Jeff Sheinberg <jeffsh@erols.com>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.3.16
Severity: normal

Hi,

The following typescript shows that apt fails to autoclean the
tetex* .debs, even though tetex is not installed.  Invoking
`apt-get clean' and `dpkg --forget-old-unavail' did not make a
difference, and also did not cleanup the `tetex-french' package
entry. 

83 jsroot ~ #  dpkg -l tetex\*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
pn  tetex-base     <none>         (no description available)
pn  tetex-bin      <none>         (no description available)
pn  tetex-dev      <none>         (no description available)
pn  tetex-doc      <none>         (no description available)
pn  tetex-extra    <none>         (no description available)
un  tetex-french   <none>         (no description available)
pn  tetex-lib      <none>         (no description available)
pn  tetex-nonfree  <none>         (no description available)
pn  tetex-src      <none>         (no description available)
84 jsroot ~ # dselect
85 jsroot ~ # apt-get autoclean
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
86 jsroot ~ # ls -l /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex*
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     11017324 Jan 10 15:05 /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-base_1.0-6_all.deb
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     11017044 Jan 15 15:09 /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-base_1.0-7_all.deb
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      2654688 Dec 15 15:00 /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-bin_1.0.6-2_i386.deb
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      2659062 Jan 15 15:09 /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-bin_1.0.6-3_i386.deb
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     11802922 Jan 15 15:09 /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-doc_1.0-7_all.deb
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        32068 Dec 15 15:00 /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-lib_1.0.6-2_i386.deb
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        32152 Jan 15 15:09 /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-lib_1.0.6-3_i386.deb


Thanks,
-- 
Jeff Sheinberg  <jeffsh@erols.com>

-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux eden-hda7.local 2.2.13 #3 Tue Nov 23 19:16:01 EST 1999 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6          2.1.2-11       GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii  libstdc++2.10  2.95.2-4       The GNU stdc++ library