sysvutils creates Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop

[Michael Neuffer]

Package: sysvutils
Version: 2.86.ds1-14.1ubuntu45
Severity: grave

Todays unstable update brings the following, accoring to the apt documentation
this is to be considered as a grave bug.

root at kyle:/etc/apt/apt.conf.d# dselect
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   libgnome-desktop-2-7 sysvinit-utils
The following packages will be upgraded:
   dictionaries-common fortunes-de gnome-about gnome-desktop-data hddtemp kdelibs5-data
   laptop-mode-tools libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx libglu1-mesa libgnome-desktop-dev
   libgweather-common libgweather1 liblircclient-dev liblircclient0 liborbit2 liborbit2-dev
   libspeex1 libsqlite3-0 logcheck logcheck-database logtail lsb-base lsb-release make
mesa-utils
   python-gobject python-launchpad-bugs python-mutagen screen smplayer smplayer-translations
   startup-tasks system-services sysvutils upstart upstart-compat-sysv upstart-logd xdg-utils
   xserver-xorg-input-wacom xserver-xorg-video-dummy
41 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/32.9MB of archives.
After this operation, 1290kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential package sysvutils
due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This is often bad, but if you really want to do it,
activate the APT::Force-LoopBreak option.
E: Internal Error, Could not early remove sysvutils
Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the
packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors
or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors
above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again
Press enter to continue.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
   APT prefers intrepid-updates
   APT policy: (500, 'intrepid-updates'), (500, 'intrepid-security'), (500, 'intrepid'), (500, 'hardy-updates'), (500, 'hardy-security'), (500, 'hardy')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25.4 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages sysvutils depends on:
ii  libc6              2.8~20080505-0ubuntu3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libselinux1        2.0.55-0ubuntu4       SELinux policy enforcement, run-ti
ii  libsepol1          2.0.20-0ubuntu3       SELinux binary policy, run-time li
ii  sysv-rc            2.86.ds1-56ubuntu2    System-V-like runlevel change mech

sysvutils recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information