Dia Hassles

Upgraded Ubuntu to 9.10, and Dia got upgraded to 0.97. This update included a change to the file format for associations elements, (which breaks tedia2sql.pl, which is fully unsupported/orphaned at this point), and apparently changed the default font, which skewed all of our diagrams.

So I removed 0.97, and pulled down the 0.96 .debs from packages.ubuntu.com, and installed them, but then Ubuntu kept asking to upgrade them, since it saw 0.97 out there in Karmic. So, taking a page from my angel upgrade, I edited /var/lib/dpkg/status, and removed the three 0.96 dia entries from that, and now I have 0.96 installed, but Synaptic doesn't know about it, and doesn't ask to upgrade it. Hackish, but it appears to work.