This is quite an issue for me. I wanted to try the new libtheora and had
to manually upgrade the versions of libc6 etc.

smb no longer worked with the new versions of libc6 so I wanted to
return my system to what it used to be. I tried clicking on the package
and "Force Version"ing but that (as was mentioned) wants to remove
everything dependent on libc6 - even though they clearly work with the
standard Dapper version.

The way I worked around it was to download the deb from the Dapper repo
and manually installing with dpkg at the command line (gdebi won't let
you downgrade).

Perhaps a "Revert" option, to resync with the repo, could lessen the
impact of this bug.

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Difficulty downgrading packages with dependencies
https://launchpad.net/bugs/15019

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