It also drives me crazy, and I hoped all the time that it would dissolve with the update to 12.04 precise – but it did not.
For the meantime, I am using this to get rid of the "update available" icons in the tray: sudo perl -pi -e 's,(Replaces: libqwt5-qt4-dev \(<< 6.0.0)\),\1-),' /var/lib/dpkg/status && sudo apt-get update -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/921430 Title: Package libqwt-dev wants to upgrade every time To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qwt/+bug/921430/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs