> I was tempted to merge #217862 and #170825 but I can't be sure > that they report the same bug since the former involves a > normal dependency and the latter involves a dependency on a > virtual package. However, the submitters of these bugs may > be interested to compare notes.
Yes, this really seems to be the same problem: dpkg does not check if new version of a package still satisfies the dependences that have been satisfied by the old varsion of the same package.
