Bug#462734: possible fix

[hungerburg <dub@lazy.shacknet.nu>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.7.11
Followup-For: Bug #462734


I too experience this bug on a machine, where I forcibly installed
the sun-java-plugin, that for weeks now is uninstallable in unstable,
because it depends on a package that does not exist. therefore "apt-get
check" fails in the apt cron.

OTOH adding "-f" to the "apt-get check" commandline stops it from failing,
so this may be a possible solution to test the lock, yet I do not know
the exact sematics of "-f" enough to tell for sure.

please consider!

peter


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  debian-archive-keyring        2008.04.16 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii  libc6                         2.7-10     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.3.0-3  GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6                    4.3.0-3    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

apt recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information