xserver-xorg-core update breaks X

[Vincent Trouilliez]

"Christofer C. Bell" <christofer.c.bell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, you can, but there's no point to it.  The current release in the
> repositories is the same software that's installed on your machine
> already.

Is it ? I might be outdated on this, but when I read the bug report earlier today, the dev responsible for the pacakge said there were actually two patches in the "broken" X update. The offending one was identified and reverted, but I assume the other patch, being harmless, would have been kept. 

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Vince