Yes,  the patch updates the package to 1.6.1-6.  That actually seems 
appropriate to me in this case.  The only code changes since 1.6.1-1 are the 
(four!) security patches in 1.6.1-6, only one of which is the one mentioned in 
this bug.  Other changes relate only to packaging:
- Update to debhelper v9
- Enable multiarch
- Enable hardening build flags
- A format change to the debian/copyright file

In particular, the complex changes to build and maintain a symbols file
mentioned in the changelog were completely reverted, and so do not
appear here.


I suppose one could argue that enabling multiarch has the potential to cause 
problems, but if that were the case, I think we'd have seen it by now, in 
Debian or in later Ubuntu releases.  While I'm all for being conservative about 
what goes into security releases, IMHO in this case community is best served by 
getting the security fix out quickly (it's already been three weeks since 
upstream released the fix) and incidentally paving the way for promptly 
releasing any future fixes.  Thus, I'd recommend abandoning any attempt to pull 
in only 95% of the changes since 1.6.1-1, and instead just sync 1.6.1-7 from 
Debian.

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