This has been fixed a long time ago. To be sure, I checked it again in
14.04, and I get the following behavour:
a confirmation alert appears. It has the text 'New software can’t be
installed, because there is a problem with the software currently
installed. Do you want to repair this problem
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This bug was fixed in the package software-center - 5.5.1.1
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software-center (5.5.1.1) raring; urgency=low
* Fix FTBFS in the clean target by build-depending on python-dbus,
python-aptdaemon, python-gi, python-xapian, and python-xdg.
-- Adam Conrad adcon...@ubuntu.com
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