Comment 22 for bug 68792

I really hope I don't come off as rude here, but I get frustrated and tweak out...
umm....Why is this not fixed/backported/reverted?
It worked on my last installation, and the one before(etc. to half way through feisty) but...not now.
Why did this package get 'updated' when it just breaks an installation? is this a sporadic problem, with no current known cause?
Again, the current version out there fixes this problem, but for some reason there's not even a patch? I'd like to help somehow, but I don't even know where to start, and I'm not much help when I'm this frustrated. I have 30+gb worth of unfinished downloads just taking up space.

To sum up, it used to work, now it doesn't, there's a fix, it's not available through apt, I want to help, I don't know how, and doubt I'd do that well at it.

Pulling out his own hair,

G.Z.