Bug#686346: closed by Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org> (Bug#686346: fixed in apt 0.9.7.5)

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>]

On 2012-09-14 08:54:06 +0800, Daniel Hartwig wrote:
> On 13 September 2012 23:17, Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> wrote:
> > so that docbook-mathml would depend on a package that has been
> > uninstalled. However if I do this, the system doesn't notice
> > this broken dependency, as if docbook-mathml were not installed
> > at all (so that I don't need an "apt-get -f install").
> 
> Interesting.  Perhaps apt is not aware of the arch-less package now. Compare:
> 
> $ apt-cache policy docbook-mathml

docbook-mathml:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1.1CR1-2
  Version table:
     1.1CR1-2 0
        900 http://ftp2.fr.debian.org/debian/ testing/main powerpc Packages
        200 http://ftp2.fr.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main powerpc Packages
     1.0.0-2 0
        900 http://ftp2.fr.debian.org/debian/ stable/main powerpc Packages

> $ apt-cache policy docbook-mathml:*

docbook-mathml:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1.1CR1-2
  Version table:
     1.1CR1-2 0
        900 http://ftp2.fr.debian.org/debian/ testing/main powerpc Packages
        200 http://ftp2.fr.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main powerpc Packages
     1.0.0-2 0
        900 http://ftp2.fr.debian.org/debian/ stable/main powerpc Packages
docbook-mathml:none:
  Installed: 1.0.0-2
  Candidate: 1.0.0-2
  Version table:
 *** 1.0.0-2 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

> $ dpkg -s docbook-mathml

Package: docbook-mathml
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: text
Installed-Size: 100
Maintainer: Mark Johnson <mrj@debian.org>
Version: 1.0.0-2
Depends: xml-core (>= 0.05), sgml-base (>= 1.17), docbook-xml (>= 4.1.2-4), w3-dtd-mathml
Suggests: docbook-xsl
Description: Extension to DocBook XML for using MathML markup
[...]

> $ dpkg -C

The following packages are missing the md5sums control file in the
database, they need to be reinstalled:
 kernel-image-2.6.12-20050829 Linux kernel binary image for version 2.6.12-2005
 libgdbmg1            GNU dbm database routines (runtime version)
 libnewt0             Not Erik's Windowing Toolkit - text mode windowing with s

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