Comment 2 for bug 7609

Message-Id: <email address hidden>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 18:14:47 -0400
From: Alan Ezust <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: broken package: python-dev

Package: python-dev
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

I'm trying to install python-dev:

$ apt-get install python-dev
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... 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.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely
that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  python-dev: Depends: python2.3-dev (>= 2.3.4-1) but it is not going
to be installed
E: Broken packages