Comment 18 for bug 368325

to build with patch do:

sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install fakeroot
sudo apt-get build-dep network-manager

mkdir /tmp/test

cd /tmp/test

<<<download the patch here as "mypatch.diff">>>

# get sources:
apt-get source network-manager

# patch sources:
cd network-manager-*/
patch -p1 < ../mypatch.diff

# build package
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot

# now install new packages:
cd ../
sudo dpkg -i *.deb