Comment 8 for bug 712521

How about removing the ancient texlive 2009 from Ubuntu, and advising people to install Tex Live 2011 directly from here: http://www.tug.org/texlive/
The completely obsolete version you ship with Ubuntu is much worse than nothing! It forces novices into using buggy versions of TeX packages, although these bugs were fixed years ago. All this "wait 2 years and we'll make a monolithic Tex Live package for you" is just bullshit! Either get your shit together and package things in a reasonable time, or admit that you're not able to keep up with the rate at which Tex Live, and stop confusing everyone with obsolete packages.