Comment 7 for bug 353775

It is fixed in Debian sid. Most likely it was the change "create symlinks to ttf files in proper package (Fixes segfault for neverputt, there fore urgency set to medium)"
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/n/neverball/neverball_1.5.1-1/changelog#versionversion1.5.0-2

At least I have compiled the latest Debian version and it doesn't have the problem. I don't know if the old patch could be located. But the new release has at least another important change: "Prevent thread race that was occasionally crashing the game"

But of course the dependency will do it for Jaunty too.