Comment 21 for bug 571972

I've marked it as confirmed, but I'm not an Ubuntu maintainer, only the maintainer of the slightly-upstream Debian package, so I don't know what the procedures are for updating the real distribution. I'm slightly surprised the LTS version (6.1.5-12ubuntu1) isn't working - I think it might because LTS now uses kernels which are even newer than were current in Lenny when I initially patched this back in 6.1.5-10. While the Debian Testing package might well work for you, I suspect that the Ubuntu maintainers might not want to use it, at least in LTS, for two reasons:

1) It's an upstream version change, not just a tweak to 6.1.5
2) The upstream I'm now using is a git checkout; 6.2 still hasn't been formally released, so I'm having to base my packages off from the git trunk, which doesn't seem like something that's suitable for a 'Long Term Support' release!

I suppose one possibility is to create an am-utils PPA, and then those people that want to use the bleeding edge Debian version can use that if they want to risk running around with their pants on fire. :-) I'll look into that, although I don't know whether it's something I will do - I am on the verge of orphaning the am-utils package. I don't use it any more at work, and I'm going to become a father some time in the next two weeks, so my time will be limited!

Regards,

Tim