I agree that this makes our software unusable. But I don't think Ubuntu will have an official release regardless of what we do (see bug #782412 - AFAIK they haven't even released 0.36.3). If a user (or an Ubuntu dev) wishes to compile from source, he may grab the latest development version from bzr or just the patch. Perhaps Maxin could make a bleeding-edge release of the PPA...
I agree that this makes our software unusable. But I don't think Ubuntu will have an official release regardless of what we do (see bug #782412 - AFAIK they haven't even released 0.36.3). If a user (or an Ubuntu dev) wishes to compile from source, he may grab the latest development version from bzr or just the patch. Perhaps Maxin could make a bleeding-edge release of the PPA...