Comment 6 for bug 753970

Here is the contents for package amaya on /var/lib/dpkg/status

Package: amaya
Status: deinstall ok config-files
Priority: optional
Section: web
Installed-Size: 52284
Maintainer: Laurent Carcone <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Version: wx-11.3.1-1
Config-Version: wx-11.3.1-1
Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.20.0), libc6 (>= 2.4), libexpat1 (>= 1.95.8), libfreetype6 (>= 2.3.5), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1-21), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.20.5), libraptor1 (>= 1.4.16), libsm6, libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8f-1), libstdc++6 (>= 4.2.1-4), libx11-6, libxext6, libxinerama1, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-1)
Description: XHTML, MathML, and SVG editor from w3.org
 Amaya is a Web editor, i.e. a tool used to create and update documents
 directly on the Web. Browsing features are seamlessly integrated with
 the editing and remote access features in a uniform environment.
 Amaya is based on the Thot toolkit developed at INRIA.

Remove the above manually fix the problem.
I believe update-manager don't auto remove the package because the wrong version string