Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.9-2
Severity: normal

When trying to install bzrtools I get:

  fugl:~> LANG=C sudo aptitude install bzrtools
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree
  Reading state information... Done
  Reading extended state information
  Initializing package states... Done
  Building tag database... Done
  The following packages are BROKEN:
    bzrtools
  The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
    graphviz libgd2-xpm libgraphviz3
  The following NEW packages will be installed:
    graphviz libgd2-xpm libgraphviz3
  0 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  Need to get 1488kB of archives. After unpacking 3683kB will be used.
  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    bzrtools: Depends: bzr (< 0.93~) but 1.0~rc1-2 is installed.
  Resolving dependencies...
  The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

  Keep the following packages at their current version:
  bzrtools [Not Installed]

  Downgrade the following packages:
  bzr [1.0~rc1-2 (unstable, now) -> 0.11-1.1 (stable)]

  Score is -9851

  Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n
  Resolving dependencies...
  The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

  Keep the following packages at their current version:
  bzrtools [Not Installed]

  Score is -9881

  Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]

How can doing a downgrade be _better_ than not doing anything at all?
Clearly the second solution is better than the first one. :-)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-rc3 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nb_NO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.6-6 0.7.9          Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  libc6                     2.7-3          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcwidget0               0.5.5-4        high-level terminal interface libr
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.2.2-4      GCC support library
ii  libncursesw5              5.6+20071124-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a        2.0.17-2       type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii  libstdc++6                4.2.2-4        The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc 0.4.9-2    English manual for aptitude, a ter
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.1.1-1    parse Debian changelogs and output

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