Why apt sucks

From a buildd log:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  apache2-threaded-dev: Depends: apache2.2-common (= 2.2.9-7) but it is not going to be installed
                        Depends: libaprutil1-dev but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

Investigating with my set of perl scripts yields:

wouter@country:~/code/perl$ ./check-dep-waits
apache2-threaded-dev
dep-wait libmysqlclient15off (>> 5.0.51a)

Note the complete lack of any reference to mysql in the apt output. Also, in case you thought any of the above is bogus: apache2-threaded-dev depends on apache2.2-common which depends on libaprutil1 which depends on libmysqlclient15off. So there.

I've long been hoping for someone to finally fix #325786, but that never happened. Now that I wrote that perl script that I linked to above, I don't think I still need it -- particularly because my script works on my laptop, too, rather than only on m68k machines. Which is good.