Bug#64141: apt still installs unnecessary packages

[Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca>]

I want to confirm that I am observing this bug as well.

I have gs on hold, which means that grace is kept back.  The old grace
doesn't depend on t1lib1, but the new one does.  So whenever I do a
dist-upgrade, t1lib1 is installed, as shown below.

Dan

root@scratchy:~# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  t1lib1 
The following packages have been kept back
  grace gs gsfonts gsfonts-x11 slocate vim 
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6  not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/118kB of archives. After unpacking 315kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
Selecting previously deselected package t1lib1.
(Reading database ... 63856 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking t1lib1 (from .../archives/t1lib1_1.2-1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up t1lib1 (1.2-1) ...

root@scratchy:~# apt-get remove t1lib1
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  t1lib1* 
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 6  not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 315kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
(Reading database ... 63864 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing t1lib1 ...

root@scratchy:~# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  t1lib1 
The following packages have been kept back
  grace gs gsfonts gsfonts-x11 slocate vim 
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6  not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/118kB of archives. After unpacking 315kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.