try to see if you can change some files here or get the old dselect setting :
/var/lib/dpkg
- Kernel compile in potato Matthew Guenther
- Re: Kernel compile in potato Ben Collins
- dselect and the unstable branch Bryan Scaringe
- timzones and libc6 in the unstable branch Khalid EZZARAOUI
- timzones and libc6 in the unstable branch Bryan Scaringe
- Re: timzones and libc6 in the unstable b... Bob Nielsen
- Apt-get (dselect) wants to remove e... Bryan Scaringe
- RE: Apt-get (dselect) wants to ... Pollywog
- RE: Apt-get (dselect) wants... Pollywog
