8.10 Updates damaging applications

[Mario Vukelic]

On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 22:03 +0100, John L Fjellstad wrote:
> No, I meant backports:

And you are right. This thread is jinxed or something.

> $ apt-cache policy kontact
> kontact:
>   Installed: 4:4.2.0-0ubuntu1~intrepid2
>   Candidate: 4:4.2.0-0ubuntu1~intrepid2
>   Version table:
>  *** 4:4.2.0-0ubuntu1~intrepid2 0
>         500 http://no.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-backports/main

I had missed that you were talking about 4._2_

>  Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>      4:4.1.4-0ubuntu1~intrepid2 0
>         500 http://no.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/main 

This one was what Bret had in his Synaptic history, and I thought we
were still talking about that.

Given that it is important to Bret that this computer works (to the
point that he thinks about running Ubuntu 8.04 instead of 8.10, and
rightly so) I am not sure that he wants to enable backports :)