Comment 24 for bug 27520

Christian: Sorry, I was being a little facetious. Yes, the recent traffic on this bug indicates things have changed with regards to these kinds of issues. That being said, it did take 5 years for anyone to bother looking into it. Forgive me if I'm a little pessimistic about the speed with which things will get resolved.

Regardless, it's been my experience that Ubuntu doesn't backport fixes of this nature to releases that have already shipped. I've found that the bugs must constitute a clear, widespread problem for a majority of users before a backport is even considered. That's more what I was speaking to than just a fix getting applied. If that policy's changed, please correct me.