error uninstalling inactive ports

[Thomas Robitaille]

After upgrading all my packages, I've tried to uninstall all inactive
packages, but I'm getting

$ sudo port uninstall inactive
--->  Unable to uninstall py27-distribute @0.6.45_0, the following
ports depend on it:
--->   py27-nose @1.2.1_1
--->   py27-bdist_mpkg @0.4.4_0
--->   py27-html5lib @0.95_0
--->   py27-dateutil @1.5_1
--->   py27-m2crypto @0.21.1_0
--->   py27-mysql @1.2.3_1+mysql5
--->   py27-rope @0.9.2_0
--->   py27-altgraph @0.10.2_0
--->   py27-pyobjc @2.5.1_0
--->   py27-ipython @0.13.2_0+scientific
--->   py27-pygments @1.6_0
--->   py27-roman @2.0.0_0
--->   py27-numexpr @2.1_0
--->   py27-bottleneck @0.6.0_0
--->   py27-pandas @0.11.0_0
--->   py27-pep8 @1.4.5_0
--->   py27-dap @2.2.6.7_0
--->   py27-jinja2 @2.7_0
--->   py27-pip @1.3.1_0

Presumably this is a side-effect of the distribute -> setuptools
merge. Strangely, if I list the inactive packages I get:

py27-distribute                @0.7            python/py-distribute

i.e. not py27-distribute @0.6.45_0 - what is the solution in this
case, do the above package need to be updated to require
py27-setuptools instead of py27-distribute?

Cheers,
Tom