This one is giving me headaches. My favourite contributor had a role in it too. It boils down to:

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
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.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
upstart: PreDepends: sysvinit-utils (>= 2.86.ds1-23) or
busybox (>= 3:1.6.1.legal-1osso8) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

This is for autoconf 2.64, same for package automake1.10-autoconf264. Installing sysvinit-utils proposes removal of 424 components. Busybox is power and much higher number. Or is it power?
Just checked standard busybox same error. 1.6>1.10.2legal...