Same problem here. It seems to be a bug in apt-check:

| % /usr/lib/update-notifier/apt-check 
| Reading package lists... Done
| Building dependency tree       
| Reading state information... Done
| 11
|
| # aptitude dist-upgrade -s
| Reading package lists... Done
| Building dependency tree       
| Reading state information... Done
| Reading extended state information      
| Initializing package states... Done
| No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
| 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
| Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
| Would download/install/remove packages.

But what I do not understand is why apt-get wants to install these
packets:

| # apt-get -s dist-upgrade
| Reading package lists... Done
| Building dependency tree
| Reading state information... Done
| Calculating upgrade... Done
| The following NEW packages will be installed:
|   bash-completion esound-clients jikes jikes-kaffe kaffe-common
|   libggi-target-x libsablevm-classlib1-java libsablevm-native1
|   libsablevm1 perl-doc sablevm
|   0 upgraded, 11 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
|   Inst bash-completion (20060301-4 Debian:testing)
|   Inst esound-clients (0.2.36-3 Debian:testing)
|   Inst jikes (1:1.22-7 Debian:testing)
|   Inst kaffe-common (2:1.1.8-5 Debian:testing)
|   Inst jikes-kaffe (2:1.1.8-5 Debian:testing)
|   Inst libggi-target-x (1:2.2.1-5 Debian:testing)
|   Inst libsablevm-classlib1-java (1.13-2.1 Debian:testing)
|   Inst libsablevm-native1 (1.13-2.1 Debian:testing)
|   Inst libsablevm1 (1.13-1.3 Debian:testing)
|   Inst perl-doc (5.10.0-10 Debian:testing)
|   Inst sablevm (1.13-1.3 Debian:testing)
|   Conf bash-completion (20060301-4 Debian:testing)
|   Conf esound-clients (0.2.36-3 Debian:testing)
|   Conf jikes (1:1.22-7 Debian:testing)
|   Conf kaffe-common (2:1.1.8-5 Debian:testing)
|   Conf jikes-kaffe (2:1.1.8-5 Debian:testing)
|   Conf libggi-target-x (1:2.2.1-5 Debian:testing)
|   Conf libsablevm-classlib1-java (1.13-2.1 Debian:testing)
|   Conf libsablevm-native1 (1.13-2.1 Debian:testing)
|   Conf libsablevm1 (1.13-1.3 Debian:testing)
|   Conf perl-doc (5.10.0-10 Debian:testing)
|   Conf sablevm (1.13-1.3 Debian:testing)

For example, I have no packages installed which depend on jikes-kaffe.

- Stephan

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