Bug#56708: apt: another (new?) dependency problem

[Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler <ujr@physik.phy.tu-dresden.de>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.3.16
Severity: normal

Hi,

 this problem occurred, when I dist-upgraded today.
 apt-get wanted to remove wmaker and wmaker-plain.

 The situation is as follows:
 The old wmaker depended on wmaker-plain and wmaker-plain
 depended on that specific version of wmaker.
 Now wmaker-plain was merged into wmaker and wmaker conflicts
 with wmaker-plain. Therefore, for the new version of wmaker,
 apt-get removes wmaker-plain, which in turn causes removing
 of wmaker itself. Thus, after dist-upgrade no wmaker at all.

 The problem can be solved by apt-get install wmaker, which
 removes wmaker-plain and updates wmaker. Although it looks
 like a bug in the dependencies (circular dependencies in the
 previous version of wmaker/-plain?), apt may try to correct
 the situation with the new version (which works as demonstrated
 by apt-get install).

 You may downgrade the severity of this report to wishlist,
 if appropriate.

 Thanks,

  Ulf