Bug#267289: apt-get: "dist-upgrade" doesn't consider removing packages

[Teodor <mteodor@gmail.com>]

The same problem today, this time upgrading 'gpm':

piti:~# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  gpm
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
piti:~#
piti:~#
piti:~# apt-get install gpm
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libgpmg1
The following packages will be upgraded:
  gpm
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 222kB of archives.
After this operation, 147kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Get:1 http://ftp.ro.debian.org lenny/main gpm 1.20.4-2 [222kB]
Fetched 222kB in 0s (534kB/s)
Reading package fields... Done
Reading package status... Done
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
Reading changelogs... Done
Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg: libgpmg1: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you request:
 gpm depends on libgpmg1 (>= 1.20.0).
(Reading database ... 142298 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libgpmg1 ...
(Reading database ... 142292 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace gpm 1.20.3~pre3-3 (using .../gpm_1.20.4-2_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement gpm ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up gpm (1.20.4-2) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/gpm ...
piti:~#


>From this example I can guess that "dist-upgrade" does not even
consider removing packages.

Thanks