Bug#92033: apt: Weird broken behavior

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.3
Severity: important

I get this weird error:

~# apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... failed.
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
  e2fsprogs: Conflicts: quota (< 1.55-8.1) but it is not installed
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.
E: Unable to correct dependencies

Why on earth the uninstallability of a CONFLICT should be a problem
is beyond me.

Using --ignore-hold did not help.

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux alexanderwohl 2.2.18pre10 #1 Wed Sep 27 08:48:48 EST 2000 i686 unknown

Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6          2.2.2-1        GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii  libstdc++2.10- 2.95.3-3       The GNU stdc++ library