Package: apt Version: 0.5.9 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/apt-get Consider the case of netbase 4.11, a package with a broken script that fails configuration.
Then one does apt-get update and 4.13 is now the candidate as seen in apt-cache policy. However doing a apt-get install or apt-get install most_anything [other than apt-get install netbase (or probably its dependencies too)] will still insist in trying to install 4.11. -- Package-specific info: -- apt-config dump -- APT ""; APT::Architecture "i386"; APT::Build-Essential ""; APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential"; APT::Get ""; APT::Get::List-Cleanup "false"; APT::Cache-Limit "16777216"; Dir "/"; Dir::State "var/lib/apt/"; Dir::State::lists "lists/"; Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list"; Dir::State::userstatus "status.user"; Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status"; Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/"; Dir::Cache::archives "archives/"; Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin"; Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin"; Dir::Etc "etc/apt/"; Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list"; Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list"; Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d"; Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf"; Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d"; Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences"; Dir::Bin ""; Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods"; Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg"; DPkg ""; DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs ""; DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -ne 10"; DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true"; DPkg::Tools ""; DPkg::Tools::Options ""; DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges ""; DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges::Version "2"; -- /etc/apt/sources.list -- deb http://debian.linux.org.tw/debian sid main contrib non-free deb http://debian.linux.org.tw/debian-non-US sid/non-US main contrib non-free -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux debian 2.4.21-1-k7 #2 Mon Jun 16 22:23:16 EST 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=zh_TW.Big5, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5 Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:3.3.2-0pre1 GCC support library ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.1-0rc1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 -- no debconf information
