Comment 9 for bug 921430

It also drives me crazy, and I hoped all the time that it would dissolve with the update to 12.04 precise – but it did not.

For the meantime, I am using this to get rid of the "update available" icons in the tray:

  sudo perl -pi -e 's,(Replaces: libqwt5-qt4-dev \(<< 6.0.0)\),\1-),' /var/lib/dpkg/status && sudo apt-get update