Comment 48 for bug 342671

Whenever problems like this arise in immature package management apps,
one can always fall back to apt-get or aptitude, smart, etc. They
work fine.

So, I wonder: where is the wisdom in replacing such mature, stable
systems with ones written from scratch that are intended to look
pretty? Don't Synaptic and Adept sit on top of apt, therefore giving
them a mature, stable base? Apt and aptitude have had many years of
refining. What's wrong with them? If there are some new ideas that
they don't support, why not extend them to support those ideas, rather
than starting from scratch? They probably went through similar
growing pains when they were new, but that was a long time ago. The
whole idea of OSS is to build and stand on the shoulders of giants.
And, as others have mentioned, Ubuntu sails along smoothly with
Synaptic, et al.

Kubuntu will never realize its potential until issues like this are
resolved at a strategic level. (Hardy still seems to be the most
stable, reliable, trouble-free version of Kubuntu!) Forgive me if my
ignorance is showing, but where is the wisdom in all this?