Bug#188161: hits again

[Yann Dirson <ydirson@fr.alcove.com>]

severity 188161 normal
thanks

(the problem does not seem so "simple" as previously exposed)

Getting back to work on the set of machines on which I originally had
this problem.

Now I don't use the CD to do the base install, I just point to our
internal up-to-date woody mirror.

I backported 0.5.12 to woody, and checked it does not behave better in
this respect.

I finally narrowed the problem the following:

- when my meta-package is not installed and I "apt-get install" it
directly, there is no problem at all

- when it was installed with "dpkg --force-depends" first (for reasons
irrelevant to the current bugreport), and then I "apt-get -f install"
to bring the machine to the target state, then the "internal error" hits.

This meta-package, however, has no predepends.  Maybe the problem
comes from pre-depends of its dependancies, and from the fact that
it's essential ?

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