Comment 80 for bug 863154

Thank you Alexia.

As I understand it this is a workaround for the bug which would enable Gimp to work in Oneiric and has a very low chance of causing regressions in Gimp. All Ubuntu would need to do is add this patch to their Gimp package to disable the history buffer and release it as an update.

I quickly slapped your link into a patch form so that Launchpad janitor would be aware a patch has been submitted. It is untested and Ubuntu packagers should follow your link to actually obtain the patch.