Comment 10 for bug 248055

I believe the reason that it currently doesn't work is due to it being the old version. Lying about the version is possibly a solution, but that's cheating imo (and bad for the network). It would be much better to introduce the new version as a SRU (at least for Hardy).

I understand that a small patch is desired to reduce the chance of regressions, but in this case, the existing version is itself the problem, and users have an application that is next to useless (hence the high priority). This problem is best solved as a backport in the form of a SRU.