Oops. I should wait longer before grabbing patches from CVS :). The attached debdiff includes all the necessary files, and compiles, and appears to do the right thing. With a patched wxwidgets, I was unable to duplicate the scorched3d SIGSEGV.
** Attachment added: "Debdiff for GECOS processing in wxwidgets2.8" http://librarian.launchpad.net/6732301/M35375.debdiff -- Scorched3d SIGSEGV on startup https://launchpad.net/bugs/35375 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs