Yep, appears to be debian bug #334305, and I now understand why my patch was working (albeit in a broken way). I couldn't install the dapper package (too many dependencies), but manually applying the patch to my breezy source base fixes the problem, so I think this is fixed.
-- ioconf.c: ioc_name corruption https://launchpad.net/bugs/4680 -- universe-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/universe-bugs
