Bug#90103: apt upgrade wants to remove almost everything

[Erik Winn <ewinn@hotpop.com>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5
Severity: unknown

 Hi,
  Just thought I would point out a couple of things:
	A. Packages.gz in ~/jgg/apt list a debconf that seems to be unavailable.
	B. apt-get install apt (version 0.5) offers to uninstall an awful lot of 
stuff - roughly 180 megs ... seems a little execessive. Looks like this:

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endymion:/home/erik# apt-get install apt
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libapt-pkg-dev
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  adduser alien alsa-modules-2.4.1 alsa-source avifile-player base-config 
bsdmainutils bug-buddy
  codecommander cvs cvs-buildpackage debconf debhelper dh-make dia emacs20 
emacsen-common enscript
  eog esound esound-common gaim-gnome gdm gedit glade-gnome gmc gnapster 
gnome-applets gnome-bin
  gnome-card-games gnome-control-center gnome-core gnome-games gnome-gataxx 
gnome-glines
  gnome-gnibbles gnome-gnobots2 gnome-gnometris gnome-gnomine gnome-gnotravex 
gnome-gtali
  gnome-gturing gnome-gv gnome-help gnome-iagno gnome-iconedit gnome-mahjongg 
gnome-media gnome-panel
  gnome-panel-data gnome-pim gnome-pim-conduits gnome-same-gnome 
gnome-session gnome-stones
  gnome-terminal gnome-utils gnome-xbill gnomeicu gnucash gnumeric grdb gs 
gtop helix-sweetpill
  kghostview konqueror libavifile libcapplet0 libesd0 libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2 
libglade-gnome0
  libgnome-pilot0 libgnome32 libgnomesupport0 libgnomeui32 libgnorba27 
libgnorbagtk0 libgtkhtml7
  libpaperg libsdl1.0 libsdl1.1 libsmpeg0 libzvt2 lilo lynx lynx-ssl memprof 
netpbm pan pidentd
  psutils red-carpet rep-gtk-gnome sawfish sawfish-gnome siagoffice-common 
siagoffice-plugins
  smpeg-gtv task-debian-devel task-helix-core task-helix-gnome xaw3dg 
xchat-gnome xpw xserver-xfree86
2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 106 to remove and 6  not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/644kB of archives. After unpacking 180MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.

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 That's about it - up til now the new versions have been running swimmingly 
though :).

Cheers,
Erik Winn