Comment 2 for bug 237468

I stumbled upon this patch purely by coincidence, after a year-long battle trying to make star work again.

For what it's worth, applying this made star work properly (read: it went from "The damn thing doesn't even start up" to "Wow, so it *does* work afterall!") again, which hasn't been the case for ages.

Can this please be applied to the package? Also a backport (to at least 8.04) would be wonderful.