gnubiff not displaying titles of mail messages in popup

[David McKelvie]

Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS, using gnome-flashback session with gnubiff in top panel.

I get some email messages. The gnubiff icon in the panel says 002, meaning two messages.
I click on the gnubiff icon, I get a popup which should show me the titles of these email messages.

But the popup contains no text and is very thin, ie not tall enough to show any messages.
It is about 10 pixels high and contains only a border.

Clicking on this thin popup does show me the text of the first of these emails.
So the pupup knows about the messages, but is not big enough to show them.

I am expecting to see a list of the titles of these two email messages.

Possibly related to http://sourceforge.net/p/gnubiff/bugs/51/

apt-cache policy gnubiff says

gnubiff:
  Installed: 2.2.15-3
  Candidate: 2.2.15-3
  Version table:
 *** 2.2.15-3 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[schamane (schamane)]

Also affects Lubuntu 14.04.1:
$ apt-cache policy gnubiff
gnubiff:
  Installed: 2.2.15-3
  Candidate: 2.2.15-3
  Version table:
 *** 2.2.15-3 0
        500 http://ubuntu.inode.at/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[David McKelvie (dmck-interactive)]

Still an issue with gnubiff 2.2.17 on Ubuntu 18.04.

[David McKelvie (dmck-interactive)]

The following patch ( from http://sourceforge.net/p/gnubiff/bugs/51/ )
fixes this problem. Can someone check it and add to the released version?

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

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