Finding status of uninstallable package? (libgnomeui-dev)

[Magnus Therning]

Is there some way of finding out whether something is happening with a
package that's uninstallable at the moment?

The package I'm interested in is libgnome-dev:

Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
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:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libgnomeui-dev: Depends: libgnome2-dev (>= 2.6.0) but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: libbonoboui2-dev (>= 2.5.4) but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: libgnomevfs2-dev (>= 2.7.1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

/M

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