Seems to me, then, that the answer is to put the Debian unstable package in the Kubuntu repository and simply rename it.
That may not satisfy the Kubuntu developers, but it would result in a Knights program that is current and doesn't crash. -- crashes when trying to perform castle (king/rook exchange) https://launchpad.net/bugs/70424 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
