Comment 29 for bug 262191

I don't think it is. I have intrepid-backports enabled and apt-cache policy says this:

$ apt-cache policy network-manager-vpnc
network-manager-vpnc:
  Installed: 0.7~~svn20081015t024626-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.7~~svn20081015t024626-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.7~~svn20081015t024626-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
$ apt-cache policy network-manager
network-manager:
  Installed: 0.7~~svn20081018t105859-0ubuntu1.8.10.1
  Candidate: 0.7~~svn20081018t105859-0ubuntu1.8.10.1
  Version table:
 *** 0.7~~svn20081018t105859-0ubuntu1.8.10.1 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.7~~svn20081018t105859-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages