Comment 24 for bug 211553

Re-fixing? It has never been fixed for Ubuntu 8.04 "Long Time Support" and thus wxWidgets apps still don't work out-of-the-box and still need the "import wxversion" workaround... Apparently all Hardy supplied wxWidgets applications are using this workaround, or else they would not work AFAIK. It is best to use the wxWidgets repository for hardy:
deb http://apt.wxwidgets.org/ hardy-wx main