Comment 10 for bug 295393

No problems here:
% LC_ALL=C apt-cache policy libthinkfinger0
libthinkfinger0:
  Installed: 0.3+r118-0ubuntu4
  Candidate: 0.3+r118-0ubuntu4
  Version table:
 *** 0.3+r118-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.3+r118-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages

I don't know which ppa you use, but seems like that is the problem.
I use Tom Jaeger's: https://launchpad.net/~thjaeger/+archive/ppa
% cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/thinkfinger.list
# Recent, non-delayed variants of thinkfinger
# 2009-07-10
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/thjaeger/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

Other information:
% uname -r
2.6.28-15-generic
% lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04
Codename: jaunty