karmic version is lower then jaunty-updates

Seeing this also.

Yes, and the same problem with the following packages:

sun-java6-bin (all packages):
jaunty: 6-16-0ubuntu1.9.04
karmic: 6-15-1 (karmic)

Just for information - not having problems yet (except that tzdata-java) can't be installed.

In any case the easy resolution is to force the installation of the
distribution's version (I used synaptic to do this, in the Versions tab
of the package properties; I'm sure it can be done at the commandline
but life's too short).

This bug was fixed in the package tzdata - 2009r-1ubuntu1

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tzdata (2009r-1ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * Merge with Debian unstable. Remaining Ubuntu changes:
    - debian/control, debian/rules, debian/source/format: Revert conversion to
      3.0 (quilt) source format, not supported yet in Launchpad.
  * SRUs for 2009r will use a different orig.tar.gz naming which will be lower
    than 2009r. (LP: #467165)
  * 2009r fixes DST for San Luis, Argentina. (LP: #472720)

tzdata (2009r-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
  * Don't remove .pc/ in clean target.

tzdata (2009q-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix the "DST" offset of Dhaka, broken by the fix for #552110.

tzdata (2009q-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.
  * Use 3.0 (quilt) source format, drop build dependency on quilt.

tzdata (2009p-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release. closes: #551195.
    - Drop argentinas-dst-2009.diff (obsolete).

tzdata (2009o-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/bangladesh-openended.diff: Fix broken Asia/Dhaka
    DST. closes: #552110.
 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:33:59 +0100

Updates for hardy to karmic uploaded to queue, requiring processing by ubuntu-sru.

Dapper isn't affected, since the tz data is shipped in langpack-locales.

Accepted tzdata into hardy-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

Accepted tzdata into intrepid-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

Accepted tzdata into jaunty-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

Accepted tzdata into karmic-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

This bug was fixed in the package tzdata - 2009r-0ubuntu9.10

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tzdata (2009r-0ubuntu9.10) karmic-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    - Update time zones for some Australian stations on Antarctica
    - Fix historical DST rules for Hong Kong
    - Update DST rules for Syria (effective from October)
    - Update DST rules for Argentina (includes our patch
      argentinas-dst-2009.diff and fixes DST for province San Luis)
      (LP: #472720)
    - Split out new TZ Asia/Novokuznetsk
  * This version number his higher than the previous hardy/intrepid/jaunty
    SRUs. (LP: #467165)
  * Drop argentinas-dst-2009.diff, included upstream.
 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:54:45 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package tzdata - 2009r~repack-0ubuntu9.04

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tzdata (2009r~repack-0ubuntu9.04) jaunty-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream version 2009r:
    - Update time zones for some Australian stations on Antarctica
    - Fix historical DST rules for Hong Kong
    - Update DST rules for Syria (effective from October)
    - Update DST rules for Argentina (includes our patch
      argentinas-dst-2009.diff and fixes DST for province San Luis)
      (LP: #472720)
    - Split out new TZ Asia/Novokuznetsk
  * Fix version number ordering between Ubuntu releases by renaming
    orig.tar.gz. (LP: #467165)
  * Drop argentinas-dst-2009.diff, included upstream.
 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:37:22 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package tzdata - 2009r~repack-0ubuntu0.8.10

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tzdata (2009r~repack-0ubuntu0.8.10) intrepid-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream version 2009r:
    - Update time zones for some Australian stations on Antarctica
    - Fix historical DST rules for Hong Kong
    - Update DST rules for Syria (effective from October)
    - Update DST rules for Argentina (includes our patch
      argentinas-dst-2009.diff and fixes DST for province San Luis)
      (LP: #472720)
    - Split out new TZ Asia/Novokuznetsk
  * Fix version number ordering between Ubuntu releases by renaming
    orig.tar.gz. (LP: #467165)
  * Drop argentinas-dst-2009.diff, included upstream.
 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:43:57 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package tzdata - 2009r~repack-0ubuntu0.8.04

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tzdata (2009r~repack-0ubuntu0.8.04) hardy-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream version 2009r:
    - Update time zones for some Australian stations on Antarctica
    - Fix historical DST rules for Hong Kong
    - Update DST rules for Syria (effective from October)
    - Update DST rules for Argentina (includes our patch
      argentinas-dst-2009.diff and fixes DST for province San Luis)
      (LP: #472720)
    - Split out new TZ Asia/Novokuznetsk
  * Fix version number ordering between Ubuntu releases by renaming
    orig.tar.gz. (LP: #467165)
  * Drop argentinas-dst-2009.diff, included upstream.
 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:48:54 +0100