[Lucid] Can't install many games (unresolved dependancies)

[komputes]

Installing the following games on Lucid will bring up an error:

Package dependencies cannot be resolved
This error could be caused by required additional software packages which are missing or not installable. Futhermore there could be a conflict between software packages which are not allowed to be installed at the same time.

Packages affected:
funguloids
vegastrike

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Dec 10 15:36:24 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-7-generic i686

[Emmet Hikory (persia)]

Does this happen with other apt frontends, or only with the software center?

[Christoph Egger (christoph-egger)]

Having a look at vegastrike in Debian I'm rather sure it'll be uninstallable in Lucid as well -- independent from apt frontend. Should probably be removed from ubuntu untill the trouble are figured out

[komputes (komputes)]

Same with apt-get. Issue is specific to these packages.

komputes@lucid:~$ sudo apt-get install funguloids vegastrike
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  funguloids: Depends: ogre-plugins-cgprogrammanager but it is not installable
  vegastrike: Depends: libboost-python1.34.1 (>= 1.34.1-8) but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

[rCX (rcx)]

Also look at bug #403698 if you haven't yet

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

Closing vegastrike task as it has been removed from lucid as it's uninstallable since we don't ship libboost-python1.34.1 in lucid anymore and vegastrike isn't maintained anymore (removed from debian unstable and testing)

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

The fungluids issue is already reported in bug 194686 and is waiting for http://bugs.debian.org/502457 to be fixed.

[ssdg (sylvain-delafoy)]

Actually, I see that vegastrike is still active as seen here:
http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/

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It doesn't look dead, does it?

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

That's not the issue here. It was removed because nobody maintains the debian package anymore and Ubuntu doesn't have a maintainer for the package either. If you think it should be re-added to ubuntu you can file a needs-packaging bug for it.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/NewPackages#Requesting%20a%20new%20package%20for%20Ubuntu

Here's the reason why it was removed btw. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=585758

[ssdg (sylvain-delafoy)]

Oh, OK, got it. Thanks.
But why do we still have it's dependencies? (wasn't vegastrike-data supposed to be removed too? it's that package that is too large isn't it?)
I'd rather not submit a package request before I understood why it was removed in the first place.