broken packages on sparc woody

[mallum <breakfast@10.am>]

Hi all;

Having at last getting debian to boot on an old sparc10, I upgraded to woody
, but now Im having some wierd apt problems. heres a snippet of whats
happening;

<snip>

#apt-get install task-c-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:

Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
  task-c-dev: Depends: task-devel-common but it is not going to be installed
E: Sorry, broken packages

#apt-get install task-devel-common
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:

Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
  task-devel-common: Depends: autoconf but it is not going to be installed
                     Depends: automake but it is not going to be installed
E: Sorry, broken packages

# apt-get install autoconf
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:

Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
  autoconf: Depends: perl but it is not going to be installed
              Depends: autoconf2.13 (>= 2.13-34) but it is not going to be
installed
E: Sorry, broken packages

</snip>

Yet Perl is installed ;

dpkg -l | grep -i perl

ii  libperl5.6     5.6.1-3        Shared Perl library.
ii  perl-5.6-base  6.2            Transitional package.
ii  perl-base      5.6.1-3        The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister.

Any ideas ?

mallum