Then look in ../build-area directory for the new .deb files, install those, and try things out. Should be working fine, there's very little to actually test here.
If that's too much effort, you can wait for the new package to hit Saucy, that should be soon-ish (just a bit of work updating the daily release tooling to release into saucy, and start doing it).
Ever used bzr? You'll wanna run some commands like this:
$ bzr branch lp:~robru/friends/fix-threads-init
$ cd fix-threads-init
$ bzr bd
Then look in ../build-area directory for the new .deb files, install those, and try things out. Should be working fine, there's very little to actually test here.
If that's too much effort, you can wait for the new package to hit Saucy, that should be soon-ish (just a bit of work updating the daily release tooling to release into saucy, and start doing it).