The blogger's bug report he linked to was about a package in universe. Universe is essentially the community playing ground - packages there are not supported,

The blogger's bug report he linked to was about a package in universe. Universe is essentially the community playing ground - packages there are not supported, and most of them are synced unmodified from Debian and not there because anybody cares about them. The best course of action with universe packages thus is to fix them yourselves. Ubuntu development is open to everyone. All you need to do is submit a debdiff and subscribe the ubuntu-sponsors team. You can even submit stable release updates with sponsoring, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates tells you more. If you can't do the development yourself, and there's no community member who cares about the package, your bug might not get fixed. But that's the way things work in free software communities.