On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 02:26:47PM +0000, Keir Wayman wrote: > The email address that I sent my original email to came from inside the .deb > package (attached) so I assumed a level of sanity checking had been done.
A level of sanity checking does get done automatically, but only _against the Ubuntu release the .deb was released for_. As far as I can tell you grabbed a .deb from a future release and tried to install it into a previous release. That's the part that is not supported and no sanity checking is done for that.
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