Bug#204780:

[Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>]

M> libgphoto2-2 version 2.1.2-2 depends on libexif9.  So, if you don't have it
M> installed, your system is broken, and apt is right to try to fix it.

I see. Odd. I don't know how it got that way, and
# apt-get check
# apt-get install
# apt-get install -f
# apt-get remove
# dpkg -C

don't say anything special, more than
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 269 not upgraded.

M> This is why I asked for your status file and all of the other information
M> you have not yet sent.

As my system is thus broken, this may not be worth pursuing anymore.

If http://jidanni.org/tmp/dpkg-l.zip does not contain the needed
information, then please give me grep-status(1) commands to run, the
output of which compressed should be under 100Kb due to bandwidth.

Or instead you might force the installation of that handful of
programs, and at least stop apt-get from listing the same package as
to be gotten as "NEW" and "extra" in such broken circumstances.
Or, why the above checks can't detect a broken situation.

I.e. as we will probably never know how my system got that way, then
instead just turn the focus of the probe into adjusting apt-get's
response to such circumstances.