That is amusing as it is my normal experience with Ubuntu - bugs not being looked at or going unfixed, often for years. One simply required a recompile, another had the main binary coredump on startup with a patch published in the Redhat bug tracker. A recent one involved a single character fix and the loss of data, but won't be done due to a lack of a "sponsor". (Apparently it isn't enough for the project to document it as a bug and do a point release.)