We can't downgrade packages in the archives so we backport fixes from the development version to fix bugs in the stable release. We can try to do that in this case as William has said.
Also bear in mind that spim is in the Multiverse repo so it is community maintained and non-free. We try to do the best we can but have pretty limited resources. I realize that you are frustrated with this bug, but please try not to use such inflammatory language. It's really pretty counterproductive. We really attempt to release packages that are bug-free but we aren't able to do in-depth testing of every package before release. We first attempt to fix the bug in Feisty as it is easier to do and we aren't so concerned with introducing other bugs with the fix. Once we are confident we've isolated the fix we backport it to a stable release if it's critical. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates for the process. -- xspim hangs with a blank UI, eating the CPU https://launchpad.net/bugs/63904 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
