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I am trying to build my package (which works fine on precise, quantal, raring) in launchpad, but on saucy I get this error: 

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 apache2-prefork-dev : Depends: apache2.2-common (= 2.2.22-6ubuntu5) but it is not going to be installed

Is this package deprecated? Or is there just some trouble in the saucy development pool?

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    – Warren Hill
    Jul 18, 2013 at 20:11
  • It looks like the problem here is that apache2-prefork-dev is now a virtual package provided by apache2-dev in saucy, but for some reason the old apache2-prefork-dev deb for 2.2.22-6ubuntu5 never got deleted (I still see it in the Packages file), so it tries to install that instead. Might be worth raising a bug about it. Though it seems like you might want to move to deping on apache2-dev instead, since that seems to be all that is left.
    – Jason Conti
    Jul 18, 2013 at 20:15

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I ran into this problem as well.

It seems like apache2-dev-2.4.4-6ubuntu5 (the new version just uploaded today) now conflicts with and provides apache2-prefork-dev. See here.

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  • Hmm this worries me. Are they getting rid of prefork?
    – Jeroen Ooms
    Jul 18, 2013 at 21:00
  • Also: what would be a way to specify my control file such that it will work in both precise and saucy. Can I just do: Depends: apache2-prefork-dev | apache2-dev ?
    – Jeroen Ooms
    Jul 18, 2013 at 21:01
  • Is it only the -dev package that changes? It seems like apache2-mpm-prefork will still be the same in saucy?
    – Jeroen Ooms
    Jul 18, 2013 at 21:08
  • I think you could do: Depends: apache2-prefork-dev | apache2-dev (>= 2.4.4-6ubuntu5) but I'm not 100% certain on that. I haven't looked at the changes in detail but they probably merged the -dev packages together somehow.
    – James Curbo
    Jul 19, 2013 at 0:38

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