libboost-mpi-dev missing dependency on lucid
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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boost-defaults (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The package libboost-mpi-dev exists in the universe repository for lucid, but depends on package libboost-
$ 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-
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.