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(Get the code!)
Thanks Daniel for your note! But my message was precisely inspired by the impossibility to bind a bug to something that is not the development version. I have no option to 'nominate for quantal' in the launchpad UI, nor to 'target for release'. Searching for 'nominate' or 'target' in the bug page returns nothing with my account that is not a developer one. Apparently the initial reporters of bugs do not have anymore the option to tie a bug to a series.
The result is something that I have already seen a few times.
The bug gets 'fix released' status and since it is closed everybody forgets about it. No SRU is made and one either: (i) stays waiting for a SRU for a long time with no clue whether this will be issued or not; or (ii) start searching for backports in the PPAs ending up with a machine that relies on far too many PPAs than desirable (*); or (iii) makes his own package fork in a PPA with the fix; or (iv) opens a new bug with the same title ending with 'in quantal'. None of these options is very satisfactory.
Anyway, good to see that Andrey has made a quantal package in his PPA with the fix.
(*) there are currently 497 PPAs found searching for "fix"es for something that is buggy in stable. Surely, many of these are probably inactive or obsolete, but they are still a lot.