libboost-mpi-dev missing dependency on lucid

Bug #877548 reported by Scott Duckworth
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Bug Description

The package libboost-mpi-dev exists in the universe repository for lucid, but depends on package libboost-mpi1.40-dev which does not exist in any repository.

$ sudo apt-get install libboost-mpi-dev
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:
  libboost-mpi-dev: Depends: libboost-mpi1.40-dev but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

This is likely related to bug 582420, but I'll let the developers make that call. Perhaps libboost-mpi-dev should be removed from the repositories if it has missing dependencies.

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