On 13 Feb 2002, Gregory Stark wrote: > All you have to do is treat any package that are marked as broken in the > package databse as being on hold and recalculate the dependencies.
There is no concept as a package that is marked as borken, so no, that doesn't work. You know there is actually a reason this has been an open issue for the past 6 years.. It's freaking hard to solve, and until recently was completely impossible due to lack of support in dpkg. Jason

