You can uninstall or removes an installed libast1-dev package itself from Debian 7 (Wheezy) through the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get remove libast1-dev
If you would like to remove libast1-dev and it's dependent packages which are no longer needed from Ubuntu,
$ sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove libast1-dev
If you use with purge options to libast1-dev package all the configuration and dependent packages will be removed.
$ sudo apt-get purge libast1-dev
If you use purge options along with auto remove, will be removed everything regarding the package, It's really useful when you want to reinstall again.
$ sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove libast1-dev