Synaptic pkg error when attempting upgrade from 2.70 to 2.7.8

Ok, here's the resolution. As background: I'm running the deb wheezy iso distribution as provided. I have not been able to upgrade from 2.7.0 to 2.7.8 with synaptic.

Turns out that my synaptic package manager included as a source:
linuxcnc.org wheezy base 2.7.8-rtai and
linuxcnc.org wheezy base 2.7.8-rtai (Source Code) both checked

It choked on these, but when I selected
linuxcnc.org wheezy base 2.7-rtai instead

2.7.8 was discovered and my update proceeded as expected.

I can only surmise that I did this to myself in a past and forgotten attempt to update to 2.7.8 when perhaps I should have been running the update multiple times instead.

Sorry for the fire drill and thanks again for the timely and generous offers of help and support

Glad you got it working! Good job!