15.04, how to downgrade kate / kde

[Tom H]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 5:09 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 27 April 2015 at 10:01, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
>> Colin Law wrote:
>>> ..
>>> What do you see when you run, in a terminal
>>> apt-cache policy kate
>>
>> Either this
>>
>> kate:
>>   Installed: 4:14.12.3-0ubuntu2
>>   Candidate: 4:14.12.3-0ubuntu2
>>   Version table:
>>  *** 4:14.12.3-0ubuntu2 0
>>         500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/universe amd64
>>
>> or the equivalent version for i386. But the version displayed at Help ->
>> About Kate is "5.0.0 using KDE Frameworks 5.9.0".
>
> Confusing!!!
>
> I would have thought that merits a bug in its own right.

The use of an epoch, "4:", must be confusing you.

It's kate 14.12.3 and it's in sync with kde-baseapps:

$ apt-cache policy kate
kate:
...
  Candidate: 4:14.12.3-0ubuntu2
...

$ apt-cache policy kde-baseapps
kde-baseapps:
...
  Candidate: 4:14.12.3-0ubuntu3
...

Fedora's using the same:

$ dnf info kate
Name        : kate
...
Version     : 14.12.3
Release     : 1.fc22
...

$ dnf info kde-baseapps
Name        : kde-baseapps
...
Version     : 14.12.3
Release     : 3.fc22
...