[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#571304: apt keeps trying to add packages that not selected for installation

[markhobley at yahoo.co.uk]

Package: base
Severity: normal

I am using Debian testing. Whenever, I try to add or remove a package, I
keep getting a message that the following packages will be installed:

The following NEW packages will be installed
  aptitude-doc-en geoip-database libclass-accessor-perl libfont-afm-perl
  libhtml-tagset-perl libhtml-template-perl libio-string-perl
  libmailtools-perl libparse-debianchangelog-perl libsub-name-perl liburi-perl
  libxml-namespacesupport-perl

If I accept installation of these, I then get a message that these packages
are not needed, and I have the option to autoremove them again.

This problem is recursive.

The problem does not occur on Debian Etch (stable), so I suspect that
changes implemented in testing are causing this.

Mark.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (60, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i386)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-486
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash