Comment 7 for bug 178541

I think I managed to get this right without the ppaput utility. I am not 100% sure if I am understanding the processes right for this, though. I did confirm that this patch works using the instructions on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Sponsorship/SponsorsQueue under the section "Notes for Contributors". I have tested and built the resulting package with this debdiff and it is as I have been using it now for a while (since I found the original fix in Gutsy).

What I did was created a patch file in debian/patches and altered debian/rules to patch the source immediately before building. This package doesn't use CDBS, so I added a patch line manually. I am not sure if this was the correct thing to do, but I am under the understanding that changes that are specific to Ubuntu should be kept separate from the actual source itself—this was what seemed like the best way to do that without converting the entire thing to using CDBS, which I would not have the slightest clue how to do just yet anyway.