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Every time I run apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade then, I get libqwt-dev in "the following packages will be upgraded" list. Every time. If I update and upgrade right after I've already done it it is there again. And no error messages saying it failed to upgrade. Any ideas?

Below is the output:

~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libqwt-dev
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/99.8 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 287922 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libqwt-dev 6.0.0-1ubuntu1 (using .../libqwt-dev_6.0.0-1ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libqwt-dev ...
Setting up libqwt-dev (6.0.0-1ubuntu1) ...
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What version of Ubuntu and can you pastebin the exact output please. You might want to file a bug report. – bodhi.zazen Jan 11 '12 at 22:00
XUbuntu 11.10. Nothing unusual in apt-get output. Everything looks ok but libqwt-dev persists. – Ivan Jan 12 '12 at 1:32
Of course I can probably just remove it (as far as I understand I don't need a -dev package unless I want to work on Qt code) but I am still curious... – Ivan Jan 12 '12 at 1:38
Interesting. Was that the complete output? Did apt-get exit 0? – tumbleweed Jan 12 '12 at 10:38
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This bug is already reported and the problem and the solution are already identified, but unfortunately it was not fixed yet. – user54471 Apr 11 '12 at 15:11
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