Comment 43 for bug 1623856

On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 01:09:21AM -0000, Scott Cowles Jacobs wrote:
> Hmmm... back in November, I added the Proposed repository shown above in Other Software
> (https://launchpad.net/~flexiondotorg/+archive/ubuntu/sru),
> and from it obtained:
> aptdaemon (1.1.1+bzr982-0ubuntu16.16.10.1~yakkety1.0 )

This version of aptdaemon was never in the official Ubuntu archive, and
in fact the url you've provided is a PPA.

> The fix-release version in #41 above is:
>
> aptdaemon (1.1.1+bzr982-0ubuntu16.2) yakkety;
>
> This has not shown up in my repositories yet, and I am wondering about the version
> numbering... surely the version I have is technically a higher version than the release
> (16 being higher than 2)

This version of aptdaemon is still going through the phased-updates
process is only being presented to 20% of users who use update-manager
to update their packages. If you use apt-get install aptdaemon and have
-proposed enabled you'd get the new version of aptdaemon.

> In Synaptic, it shows the 16.2 version in Versions, as well as mine (and also the assumed
> original 16), but Package->Force Version, selecting 16.2 has no effect on the version, and
> "Apply" is ghosted.
> Even unchecking the Other Software repository and Reloading the package list did not change anything.
> Perhaps it is because there are three other aptdaemon-related packages with the same version
> string as aptdaemon (aptdaeman-date, and two python3 pkgs.) that perhaps would not work if aptdaemon changed its version.

The version of aptdaemon you have installed,
1.1.1+bzr982-0ubuntu16.16.10.1~yakkety1.0, from some other repository is
in fact greater than the one in the official Ubuntu archive for yakkety.
You'll actually want to "downgrade" to the version of aptdaemon from the
archive.

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Brian Murray