Comment 8 for bug 1200505

hi same issue effecting me,

$ apt-get install dearesther
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.
 dearesther : Depends: python:all (>= 2.7) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

$ dpkg -l|grep python2.7
ii libpython2.7:i386 2.7.4-2ubuntu3 i386 Shared Python runtime library (version 2.7)
ii libpython2.7-minimal:i386 2.7.4-2ubuntu3 i386 Minimal subset of the Python language (version 2.7)
ii libpython2.7-stdlib:i386 2.7.4-2ubuntu3 i386 Interactive high-level object-oriented language (version 2.7)
ii python2.7 2.7.4-2ubuntu3 i386 Interactive high-level object-oriented language (version 2.7)
ii python2.7-minimal 2.7.4-2ubuntu3 i386 Minimal subset of the Python language (version 2.7)

$ apt-get install python:all
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
python is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

$ uname -a
Linux netty 3.8.0-27-generic #40-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 9 00:19:35 UTC 2013 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux

So, i have python 2.7.4-0ubuntu1 installed but the python:all 2.7 virtual package isn't linking to it... Im guessing some hacking of the deb to remove the dep would fix it :D but as im here i thought i'd report the issue, oh and im on raring