because the lib soname should change if the ABI changed. Dropping the patch would mean having that crasher back and would require rebuilding packages which built with the new version
An appropriate forum would be an user list probably -- evince crashes when highlighting text at line end https://launchpad.net/bugs/24970 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
