15.04, how to downgrade kate / kde

[Colin Law]

On 27 April 2015 at 12:07, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 5:09 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 27 April 2015 at 10:01, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
>>> Colin Law wrote:
>>>> ..
>>>> What do you see when you run, in a terminal
>>>> apt-cache policy kate
>>>
>>> Either this
>>>
>>> kate:
>>>   Installed: 4:14.12.3-0ubuntu2
>>>   Candidate: 4:14.12.3-0ubuntu2
>>>   Version table:
>>>  *** 4:14.12.3-0ubuntu2 0
>>>         500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/universe amd64
>>>
>>> or the equivalent version for i386. But the version displayed at Help ->
>>> About Kate is "5.0.0 using KDE Frameworks 5.9.0".
>>
>> Confusing!!!
>>
>> I would have thought that merits a bug in its own right.
>
> The use of an epoch, "4:", must be confusing you.
>
> It's kate 14.12.3 and it's in sync with kde-baseapps:

No, it is not the 4: that is confusing.  It is the fact that Kate
14.12.3 apparently shows as kate 5.0.0 in Help > About.

>
> $ apt-cache policy kate
> kate:
> ...
>   Candidate: 4:14.12.3-0ubuntu2
> ...
>
> $ apt-cache policy kde-baseapps
> kde-baseapps:
> ...
>   Candidate: 4:14.12.3-0ubuntu3

OK, still seems a bit odd.  For most apps the version in the repo
seems to bear a close relationship to the app version.

Colin