Eclipse will not install due to dependency eclipse-platform

Bug #1247553 reported by borillionstar
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Bug Description

I'm attempting to install eclipse so that I can write java source code, but it fails installing with unmet dependencies.

I'm on:
Ubuntu 13.10, Release: 13.10
Linux localhost 3.4.0 #1 SMP Wed Oct 23 03:22:56 PDT 2013 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux

Here are the outputs of apt-cache policy and my terminal output after that.

apt-cache policy eclipse
eclipse:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 3.8.1-4
  Version table:
     3.8.1-4 0
        500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ saucy/universe armhf Packages

apt-cache policy eclipse-data
N: Unable to locate package eclipse-data
(raring)babak@localhost:~$ apt-cache policy eclipse-platform-data
eclipse-platform-data:
  Installed: 3.8.1-4
  Candidate: 3.8.1-4
  Version table:
 *** 3.8.1-4 0
        500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ saucy/universe armhf Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

apt-cache policy eclipse-platform
eclipse-platform:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: (none)
  Version table:

What I did:

1. I tried to install eclipse:
    eclipse-jdt not going to be installed
    eclipse-pde but it is not installable

2. install eclipse-jdt
    Depends: eclipse-platform but it is not installable

3. Install -f eclipse-platform
    following packages replace it: eclipse-platform-data

4. install -f eclipse-platform-data:
    eclipse-platform-data is already the newest version.

Phfft!!! Whats not happening here thats supposed to?

Terminal Output
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babak@localhost:~$ sudo apt-get install eclipse
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:
 eclipse : Depends: eclipse-jdt (>= 3.8.1-4) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: eclipse-pde (>= 3.8.1-4) but it is not installable

babak@localhost:~$ sudo apt-get install -f eclipse-jdt
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:
 eclipse-jdt : Depends: eclipse-platform (>= 3.8.1-4) but it is not installable

babak@localhost:~$ sudo apt-get install -f eclipse-platform
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package eclipse-platform is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
  eclipse-platform-data

E: Package 'eclipse-platform' has no installation candidate
(raring)babak@localhost:~$ sudo apt-get install -f eclipse-platform-data
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
eclipse-platform-data is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: eclipse-jdt (not installed)
Uname: Linux 3.4.0 armv7l
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: armhf
Date: Sun Nov 10 15:48:04 2013
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: eclipse
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

Tags: armhf saucy
summary: - Eclipse will not install due to dependency
+ Eclipse will not install due to dependency eclipse-platform
affects: eclipse (Ubuntu) → eclipse-ubuntu
description: updated
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