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Bug#519469: apt-get proposes to autoremove packages not yet installed



Package: apt
Version: 0.7.20.2
Severity: minor

Hello,

something strange is going on with apt-get:
=====
gismo:/etc# apt-get install qemubuilder
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  bochsbios openhackware openbios-ppc openbios-sparc vgabios \
  esound-common libasyncns0 proll libpulse0 libesd-alsa0 libbluetooth2 \
  libvdeplug2 libaudiofile0
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  bochsbios bridge-utils debootstrap esound-common kvm libasyncns0
  libaudiofile0 libbluetooth2 libdirectfb-1.2-0 libesd-alsa0 libpulse0 \
  libsdl1.2debian libsdl1.2debian-alsa libsvga1 libvdeplug2 libx86-1 \
  openbios-ppc openbios-sparc openhackware proll vgabios
Suggested packages:
  vde2 samba kvm-source esound pulseaudio qemu
Recommended packages:
  esound-clients
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  bochsbios bridge-utils debootstrap esound-common kvm libasyncns0 \
  libaudiofile0 libbluetooth2 libdirectfb-1.2-0 libesd-alsa0 libpulse0 \
  libsdl1.2debian libsdl1.2debian-alsa libsvga1 libvdeplug2 libx86-1 \
  openbios-ppc openbios-sparc openhackware proll qemubuilder vgabios
0 upgraded, 22 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 4431kB of archives.
After this operation, 12.2MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? ^C
gismo:/etc#
=====

FYI, the single package listed as not fully installed or removed is
slime, because of bug #518021 [1] (full output at bug #519455 [2]).

Going back to the real bug, according to apt-get, I can remove a bunch
of packages which are no longer required.  Unfortunately, these packages
are not even installed:
=====
gismo:/etc# dpkg -s bochsbios
Package `bochsbios' is not installed and no info is available.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.

gismo:/etc# dpkg -s openbios-ppc
Package `openbios-ppc' is not installed and no info is available.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.

gismo:/etc# dpkg -s proll
Package `proll' is not installed and no info is available.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.

gismo:/etc#
=====

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

Footnotes: 
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/518021
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/519455

-- Package-specific info:

-- apt-config dump --

APT "";
APT::Architecture "amd64";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
APT::Install-Recommends "false";
APT::Install-Suggests "0";
APT::Acquire "";
APT::Acquire::Translation "none";
APT::Authentication "";
APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM "true";
APT::NeverAutoRemove "";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image.*";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-restricted-modules.*";
APT::Cache-Limit "88388604";
APT::Default-Release "unstable";
Dir "/";
Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
Dir::State::lists "lists/";
Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
Dir::State::userstatus "status.user";
Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
Dir::Etc::sourceparts "sources.list.d";
Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
Dir::Log "var/log/apt";
Dir::Log::Terminal "term.log";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Invoke "";
DPkg::Pre-Invoke:: "if [ -x /usr/sbin/etckeeper ]; then etckeeper pre-install; fi";
DPkg::Post-Invoke "";
DPkg::Post-Invoke:: "if [ -x /usr/sbin/etckeeper ]; then etckeeper post-install; fi";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -ne 10";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
DPkg::Tools "";
DPkg::Tools::Options "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs::Version "2";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges::Version "2";
RPM "";
RPM::Pre-Invoke "";
RPM::Pre-Invoke:: "if [ -x /usr/sbin/etckeeper ]; then etckeeper pre-install; fi";
RPM::Post-Invoke "";
RPM::Post-Invoke:: "if [ -x /usr/sbin/etckeeper ]; then etckeeper post-install; fi";
Acquire "";
Acquire::PDiffs "false";

-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --


-- (no /etc/apt/sources.list present) --


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  debian-archive-keyring        2009.01.31 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii  libc6                         2.9-4      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.3.3-5  GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6                    4.3.3-5    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

apt recommends no packages.

Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn  apt-doc                       <none>     (no description available)
pn  aptitude | synaptic | gnome-a <none>     (no description available)
ii  bzip2                         1.0.5-1    high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  dpkg-dev                      1.14.25    Debian package development tools
ii  lzma                          4.43-14    Compression method of 7z format in
ii  python-apt                    0.7.8      Python interface to libapt-pkg

-- no debconf information

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