Comment 5 for bug 462267

I was able to "cheat" by going to the nearest Debian mirror (in my case: http://debian.osuosl.org/debian/pool/main/g/gnome-applets/ ) and installing the appropriate gnome-applets AND gnome-applets-data for my version of Gnome. I ignored warnings that I was installing newer versions of the software than what was in the channel and after some dependencies were installed and I did a quick logout I was able to add back the battstat icon to my panel. This way seems to be better than having to do a complete build of the package manually and works on Ubuntu Karmic.

As has been already stated the Battstat applet is useful to endusers because it gives more accurate reports of battery life status at a glance. If Cannonical would like to remove battstat so badly, perhaps some attention could be given to gnome-powermanagement so it offers comparable features to battstat rather than just arbitarily removing things?

--bornagainpenguin