This https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/SRU documents the procedure to get an
bug-fix into a stable release. There are three possible conditions of
which at least one needs to be met in order to commit a bug-fix. For
this, "Bugs which represent severe regressions from the previous release
of Ubuntu" might apply. I do not know how great a percentage of users of
vpnc is affected, but since this bug get comments from 10+ people
affected, I think this condition is met.

>From what I understand, this also mean that the bug open for 
>network-manager-vpnc will not get fixed for Feisty. For Gutsy it could be 
>solved if upstream commited the changes (or if someone else wrote a patch that 
>would be merged with Gutsy's version of the package) but I am afraid they 
>would (and I think correctly) say that this needs to be solved in vpnc itself 
>so I doubt they would add the configuration option.
Therefore, I think the best way to solve this (until it gets "properly" solved 
in upstream) is to revert the patch (06_stolen_from_head) (actually, an ideal 
would be if someone reviewed the patch and removed only those parts that 
directly cause this bug). 

Well, now, according to the procedure, a MOTU is needed for agreeing
with the fix.

For Gutsy, this wil hopefully get included as well, but there is time
for that at least until August 16th, the
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UpstreamVersionFreeze.

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