Comment 5 for bug 301593

According to my understanding (and someone please correct me if I'm wrong), each new release of Ubuntu starts with the latest Debian "unstable".

When I search within Unstable at debian.org ( http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=network-manager&searchon=names&suite=unstable&section=all ) I get the following versions:

In Debian Unstable:
network-manager: 0.6.6-2
network-manager-gnome: 0.6.6-2
network-manager-pptp: 0.6.5+svnhead2574+dfsg-2
network-manager-pptp-gnome: 0.6.5+svnhead2574+dfsg-2

and if I search within Experimental ( http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=network-manager&searchon=names&suite=experimental&section=all ) I get the following versions:

In Debian Experimental:
network-manager: 0.7.0~svn4191-1
network-manager-gnome: 0.7.0~svn953-1
network-manager-pptp: 0.6.6+dfsg-2
network-manager-pptp-gnome: 0.6.6+dfsg-2

And it is because of the above, as well as the many bugs in network-manager-pptp 0.7.0 in Intrepid and Jaunty, that I am asking:

1. Where did network-manager-pptp 0.7.0 come from and why is it in Intrepid and Jaunty?

2. Can someone walk me through, if it is possible, building network-manager-pptp 0.6.6 under Intrepid? If it's possible, we might at least get something which differs very little from network-manager-pptp 0.6.5 in Hardy, which works fine. Admittedly 0.6.6 would be older than 0.7.0 so Intrepid would constantly nag you that it needs to be upgraded to 0.7.0, but I could live with that.