Comment 26 for bug 270997

Okay, well I looked a bit further in to it - And there's already a lot of noise about this plus a patch that patches the patch that introduced the regression. ktp420 has a post pretty early on that links to where that's discussed.

I don't understand why this patch isn't rolled in to the package? Does it reflect some kind of disconnect between fixing bugs in Ubuntu itself and individual projects that are not distro specific or something? I'm pretty new to how bugs are handled with Open Source, so I'm really just genuinely interested how it goes.