Broken package for Ubuntu 10.10

[Sandeep]

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10
Codename: maverick

uame -a
Linux prayogshala 2.6.38-02063808-generic #201106040910 SMP Sat Jun 4 09:13:01 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Trying to install openjdk-7 using the ppa is failing because of broken packages. I followed the following steps:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:openjdk/ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk
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:
 openjdk-7-jdk : Depends: openjdk-7-jre (>= 7~b117~pre1-0maverick1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre
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:
 openjdk-7-jre : Depends: openjdk-7-jre-headless (>= 7~b117~pre1-0maverick1) but it is not going to be installed
                 Recommends: icedtea-netx but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre-headless
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 openjdk-7-jre-headless : Depends: openjdk-7-jre-lib (>= 7~b117~pre1-0maverick1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre-lib
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 openjdk-7-jre-lib : Depends: openjdk-7-jre-headless (>= 7b89~pre1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. That PPA is for test builds and not for general usage. Here are instructions on requesting a backport for general consumption: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports
Please report any other issues you may find.