Comment 7 for bug 1247803

Thanks for your reply, Thomas. I now agree that it is the maintainer's choice as to which of the proposed implementations should be used. I've made a separate branch with the more complex conditional and attached it to this ticket.

What's the next step? I'm new to the whole ubuntu package maintenance process. I see Simon Kelley is listed as the maintainer -- is it up to him to choose one of the proposed solutions?

Also, I've based my patches off of the precise branch, because that's the distro I use most frequently. Is that sensible? Should I have based it off of trusty instead and backported later? Should I attach a patch file instead?