Unable to install gnome-shell due to gir1.2-coglpango-1.0 dependency

[Jeremy Sequoia]

I am on Oneiric/powerpc, and there seems to be an issue with installing gnome-shell due to bad dependencies:

$ sudo aptitude install gnome-shell
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gnome-shell{b}
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,108 kB of archives. After unpacking 4,683 kB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  gnome-shell: Depends: gir1.2-coglpango-1.0 which is a virtual package.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

     Keep the following packages at their current version:
1) gnome-shell [Not Installed]

gir1.2-coglpango-1.0 seems to be available in Precise, but not Oneiric (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/+package/gir1.2-coglpango-1.0). Why is this dependency showing up on Oneiric?

[Jeremy Sequoia (jeremyhu)]

Related to #877135 which seems to have been "fixed" to add the dependency, but unfortunately the package that it depends on does not even exist in Oneiric!

[Jeremy Sequoia (jeremyhu)]

As you can see from https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cogl, the Oneiric version doesn't does not provide this package that gnome-shell depends on. Please fix Oneiric's gnome-shell dependency change or update cogl in Oneiric to provide those packages.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Thank you for reporting this bug. This bug has already been reported so I'm marking this as a duplicate of bug 903382.