Bug#69495: apt uses --force-depends --force-remove-essential !!!

[Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.3.19

Seen in my dselect run with apt acquisition:

Purging configuration files for freeciv ...
dpkg: data-dumper: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you request:
 dpkg-ftp depends on perl-5.005 | data-dumper; however:
  Package perl-5.005 is not configured yet.
  Package data-dumper is to be removed.
  Package perl-5.005 which provides data-dumper is not configured yet.
 libnet-perl depends on perl-5.005 | data-dumper; however:
  Package perl-5.005 is not configured yet.
  Package data-dumper is to be removed.
  Package perl-5.005 which provides data-dumper is not configured yet.
Removing data-dumper ...

But, I didn't request !  In ps I see:

root     24024 53.1 10.0  7040 6324 ttyp0    R    20:32   0:03 /usr/bin/dpkg --force-depends --force-remove-essential --purge glimpse python-mpz

(This is the next package.)

Ian.