Bug#92287: apt-get installs package when asked to remove it

[Kai Henningsen <kai@khms.westfalen.de>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.3
Severity: normal

# apt-get -ums --purge install libxerces1- libxercesicu1-
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package libxercesicu1 is not installed, so not removed
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libxercesicu1
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libxerces1* libxerces1-dev*
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libxercesicu1
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 2 to remove and 146  not upgraded.
Purg libxerces1-dev (1.3.0-2 Debian:unstable)
Purg libxerces1 (1.3.0-2 Debian:unstable)
Inst libxercesicu1 (1.3.0-2 Debian:unstable)
Conf libxercesicu1 (1.3.0-2 Debian:unstable)
#

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux khms.westfalen.de 2.2.18-kai.44 #1 Sat Jan 27 22:28:29 CET 2001 i586

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.2.2-1    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2        1:2.95.3-6 The GNU stdc++ library