Comment 36 for bug 79289

Sabdfl, there does appear to be an upstream patch. It seems that it needs to be approved. As you see, the upstream patch is Fix Released. We are awaiting it to be Fix Committed.

Duane, when I mean support I mean this; we as an organization
(Ubuntu) get support requests thousands and thousands of times a day. Therefore, we must be very careful about the products that we release as it will be used by millions of people. If the patch turns out to break more systems than what we are fixing, then we are setting ourselves back. We must recognize some users will use 3-party repositories (like Automatix) but then if those systems break, we are many times at a lose for why that happened and consequently can not help them repair the system.

In conclusion, please be patient, it is a work in progress
-- Freddy Martinez