Bug#617257: apt: Internal Error, AutoRemover broke stuff

[David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies+debian@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 16:59, Nik A. Melchior <melchior+debian@cmu.edu> wrote:
> I'm having a problem trying to upgrade a package that has new dependencies.
> It appears that apt-get is not willing to pull in the new dependencies on its
> own, but will install them if I list them on the command line.  The error
> seems similar to my recently filed (and fixed) bug #613420, but I'm upgrading
> rather than installing a new package this time.  Here's the output of some
> relevant commands:

Thanks for your report!


As these bugs by nature very much depend on your system,
i can't reproduce it with mine, so could you please attach your
/var/lib/dpkg/status  and
/var/lib/apt/extended_states
to the bugreport?

The first includes information about all packages you have installed,
the second stores the records of which packages are autoinstalled.

If you don't want to attach them to the bugreport you can also sent
them privately to me, of course.


btw: Does this happen also without --purge switch?


Best regards

David Kalnischkies