Comment 11 for bug 859223

10.10 (which introduced libnotify4) is EOL, but 10.04 (which contains libnotify1) is not. The problem _appeared_ in 10.10, but is still around today in 12.04, 12.10, 13.04. The older library is part of *10.04 LTS* (...why do you think this was reported in 2011?)

oldlibs packages are shipped for various other, quite common, libraries -- what's the issue for doing the same for libnotify1?