[Gllug] Weird dependency problem in Debian Etch

[John Winters]

I've hit a dependency problem on a Debian Etch box and I don't 
understand why it doesn't affect all my boxes.

A number of packages are involved, but to strip out just one chain of 
dependencies:

debconf-i18n		depends on
libtext-iconv-perl	which depends on
perlapi-5.8.8		which doesn't exist

On one box I am getting the dependency problems which I would expect, 
but on all my others I seem to have the first two packages installed 
without the 3rd one (breaking the dependency rules) and nothing 
complains.  Why?

TIA,
John
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