goto - I think you misunderstood him, based on how he's wording it, he
manually rebuilt a .deb and installed it.  Now update-notifier keeps
wanting to update that package, since it is installed (just a different
version, his version).

This is still a problem in Karmic.  More specifically, update-notifier,
kpackagekit, adept, and basically every package manager other than
synaptic do NOT respect Synaptic's "force version" option.

As a result, even if people have a package version-locked in Synaptic,
they will always have to be careful not to accidentally upgrade the
package when they get an update prompt.  Also, they will have to live
with update notifications for packages they don't want updating until
the end of time.

Another example of this is the MythTV 0.21 packages in J. Y.  Avenard's
MythTV repo -
http://avenard.org/media/Ubuntu_Repository/Ubuntu_Repository.html - If
you install MythTV 0.21 using Synaptic's force version option (for
example, to allow compatibility with a Myth 0.21 backend you won't be
able to upgrade for a few weeks), all other package managers in the
system will continuously prompt you to update to 0.22.

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