That patch makes httplib2 raise the correct exception when encountering the error - socket timeout, instead of the confusing AttributeError. That's not a complete fix for this (and may invalidate any bandaids people might have added for ubuntuone, gwibber, or other apps), so I'm not 100% sure it's SRU-worthy.
Looks like oneiric has moved to 0.7x which includes this patch already.
The patch attached to upstream bug 131 looks like it should be SRU'd to maverick and natty (both of which ship 0.6.0) and perhaps lucid: http:// code.google. com/p/httplib2/ issues/ detail? id=131
That patch makes httplib2 raise the correct exception when encountering the error - socket timeout, instead of the confusing AttributeError. That's not a complete fix for this (and may invalidate any bandaids people might have added for ubuntuone, gwibber, or other apps), so I'm not 100% sure it's SRU-worthy.
Looks like oneiric has moved to 0.7x which includes this patch already.