The bug is fully understood and fully fixed, but it's quite complicated, as it involves multiple components, specifically, the interaction between X and kernel auto-repeat. That's also why the suggested workarounds are quite different, and, presumably, why the devs are not keen to backport the fix to Intrepid, though personally I think putting out a distro in which 99% of users will conclude that autorepeat is broken is very unfortunate, and not fixing it is really dumb from a PR perspective, if nothing else. But maybe it doesn't register in the big picture.
The bug is fully understood and fully fixed, but it's quite complicated, as it involves multiple components, specifically, the interaction between X and kernel auto-repeat. That's also why the suggested workarounds are quite different, and, presumably, why the devs are not keen to backport the fix to Intrepid, though personally I think putting out a distro in which 99% of users will conclude that autorepeat is broken is very unfortunate, and not fixing it is really dumb from a PR perspective, if nothing else. But maybe it doesn't register in the big picture.