make install? COME ON! This is too reckless. What's the point in having
a system with such a sophisticated package management if you try to opt
out of it by scattering files around the filesystem? You should be
ashamed.

This is a more responsible recipe (run as root):

$ sudo su -
# apt-get source util-linux
# sed -i 's/2.20.1-1ubuntu3/2.20.1-2/' util-linux-2.20.1/debian/changelog ; sed 
-i 's/--enable-raw --enable-rdev --enable-partx/--enable-ddate --enable-raw 
--enable-rdev --enable-partx/' util-linux-2.20.1/debian/rules
# ( cd util-linux-2.20.1 && dpkg-buildpackage )
# dpkg -i util-linux_2.20.1-2_*.deb
# ddate
<Ctrl-D>

These commands download, build and install util-linux_2.20.1-2, which is
one minor version more "recent" than the current util-
linux_2.20.1-1ubuntu3, so until the next version (which I trust will
have this roadblocker bug fixed) you're safe from it wanting to upgrade
everytime.

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