Comment 16 for bug 340993

I agree that it's better to sync this package sooner rather than later, if the fixes are present now in Debian; that saves us from having to wait until it shows up on someone's radar for a merge later. There's no policy against taking syncs/merges from unstable if appropriate, the only policy is that we aren't *auto*syncing from unstable for Lucid.

So I've gone ahead with syncing alpine 2.00+dfsg-6 to Lucid.

Asheesh, in general it would probably be helpful if you could follow http://wiki.ubuntu.com/SyncRequestProcess for such requests; requesting this in a comment on a bug that's already closed in the current development distroseries has a high risk of being overlooked.