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

["Nik A. Melchior" <melchior+debian@cmu.edu>]

Requested files sent privately.

I receive the same error message from apt without "--purge".

Thanks,
-- Nik

On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 06:07:19PM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote:
> 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
> 
>