As Seb said, we currently copy this package unmodified from Debian. This means less duplicated effort, and hence higher-quality packages in Ubuntu. Once your patch is applied in Debian we should sync the package - although it's a new upstream, it's the final release rather than a pre-release snapshot and most of the changes were already backported.
I've applied this as a git commit to the Debian packaging branch and forwarded it as Debian bug 615667 (you can track this at http:// bugs.debian. org/cgi- bin/bugreport. cgi?bug= 615667 ).
As Seb said, we currently copy this package unmodified from Debian. This means less duplicated effort, and hence higher-quality packages in Ubuntu. Once your patch is applied in Debian we should sync the package - although it's a new upstream, it's the final release rather than a pre-release snapshot and most of the changes were already backported.
Thanks for your contribution to Ubuntu!