* apt-pkg/algorithms.cc:

  - mark pseudo packages of installed all packages as configured
    in the simulation as we don't call configure for these packages

apt-pkg/algorithms.cc

@@ -162,7 +162,28 @@ bool pkgSimulate::Configure(PkgIterator iPkg)
       }
    }
 
-//   Sim.MarkInstall(Pkg,false);
+   if (Sim[Pkg].InstBroken() == true)
+   {
+      /* We don't call Configure for Pseudo packages and if the 'all' is already installed
+         the simulation will think the pseudo package is not installed, so if something is
+         broken we walk over the dependencies and search for not installed pseudo packages */
+      for (pkgCache::DepIterator D = Sim[Pkg].InstVerIter(Sim).DependsList(); D.end() == false; D++)
+      {
+	 if (Sim.IsImportantDep(D) == false || 
+	     (Sim[D] & pkgDepCache::DepInstall) != 0)
+	    continue;
+	 pkgCache::PkgIterator T = D.TargetPkg();
+	 if (T.end() == true || T->CurrentVer != 0 || Flags[T->ID] != 0)
+	    continue;
+	 pkgCache::PkgIterator A = T.Group().FindPkg("all");
+	 if (A.end() == true || A->VersionList == 0 || A->CurrentVer == 0 ||
+	     Cache.VS().CheckDep(A.CurVersion(), pkgCache::Dep::Equals, T.CandVersion()) == false)
+	    continue;
+	 Sim.MarkInstall(T, false);
+	 Flags[T->ID] = 2;
+      }
+   }
+
    if (Sim[Pkg].InstBroken() == true)
    {
       cout << "Conf " << Pkg.FullName(false) << " broken" << endl;

debian/changelog

@@ -75,6 +75,9 @@ apt (0.8.11) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * doc/apt-cache.8.xml:
     - describe reality as apt-cache just queries and doesn't manipulate
       the caches. Thanks to Enrico Zini for spotting it! (Closes: #612009)
+  * apt-pkg/algorithms.cc:
+    - mark pseudo packages of installed all packages as configured
+      in the simulation as we don't call configure for these packages
 
   [ Michael Vogt ]
   * methods/http.cc:
@@ -92,7 +95,7 @@ apt (0.8.11) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
       will actually test uncompressed indexes regardless of the internal
       default value of Acquire::GzipIndexes.
 
- -- David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies@gmail.com>  Fri, 04 Feb 2011 22:52:25 +0100
+ -- David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies@gmail.com>  Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:21:12 +0100
 
 apt (0.8.10.3) unstable; urgency=low