Forgot to mention the best part - as far as I could tell, the package maintainer basically was upstream at the time. (I think both might have been maintained by

Forgot to mention the best part - as far as I could tell, the package maintainer basically was upstream at the time. (I think both might have been maintained by Poettering himself, but it was a long time ago.) So in order for patches not to make it upstream the same person had to decide that it was important enough to diverge from the upstream release but not important enough to fix for everyone else. Oh, and one of the times I ran into this involved a seemingly really easy to reproduce crash (at startup, if I recall correctly) in a released upstream version...