Comment 67 for bug 1040259

> Is this still a reasonable way to approach this way, or is there something more clever available?

I would recommend against doing that, the easier is probably to take the source and rebuild it locally or throw it to a ppa targetted to quantal.

You might want to try to just download and dpkg -i the deb as well (once the package will be accepted and be built), with some luck it didn't picked any raring specific depends yet