It's like this. You upgraded to a not-yet-released, beta quality version of debian. You seem to have done some pretty horrendous hacking to work around dependancy problems, instead of reporting them:
> This I declined; and proceeded to (re-)install packages individually > from an apt-get --just-print dist-upgrade list. And things broke. This is a suprise? This will all get fixed if you file sane bug reports on each item (sane == including enough information for the developer to reproduce your problem). If you just rant, you will be ignored. -- see shy jo
