Bug#151444: apt: --download-only is too picky about conflicts

[Jeff Sheinberg <jeffsh@erols.com>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: normal

Hi,

Consider this typescript,

    106 jsroot ~ # apt-get --download-only install sn leafnode
    Reading Package Lists... Done
    Building Dependency Tree... Done
    Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
    requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
    distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
    or been moved out of Incoming.
    The following information may help to resolve the situation:

    Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
      leafnode: Conflicts: news-transport-system
      sn: Conflicts: news-transport-system
    E: Sorry, broken packages
    --> exit status 100

Now, if I had tried this with a separate invocation of apt-get for
each package, then the downloading would have been preformed with
no errors being reported.
   
IMO, apt should just present me with a warning in this case, and
then give me the opportunity to proceed anyway, eg, like this,

    [...]
    The following information may help to resolve the situation:

    Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
      leafnode: Conflicts: news-transport-system
      sn: Conflicts: news-transport-system
    Do you want to continue anyway? [Y/n]

Thanks,
-- 
Jeff Sheinberg  <jeffsh@erols.com>


-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Kernel Version: Linux eden-hda7.my.local 2.4.18-3 #1 Mon Apr 29 14:17:47 EDT 2002 i586 unknown


Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6          2.2.5-6        GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii  libstdc++2.10- 2.95.4-7       The GNU stdc++ library




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