Patches are more or less never included in Ubuntu if they have not been
commited upstream. This is, as you point out, because we need to make
sure it doesn't mess up things for other graphics cards etc.

Once a patch is merged officially by the openchrome devs for your bug, then 
please take that patch and create a debdiff out of it (follow the instructions 
here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Recipes/Debdiff). The debdiff 
should have a single changelog entry and should not contain commented out code. 
Finally request sponsorship for karmic (steps described here: 
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SponsorshipProcess). Assigning to a team is usually not 
the way it works. I think the best way forward for this bug would be to talk to 
the upstream dev about getting a fix merged there. When I had quick look at the 
upstream code I noticed that the first part of your patch (moving the F in the 
bitmask leftward) was actually merged in the middle of April: 
http://www.openchrome.org/trac/changeset/746
Is that change _alone_ sufficient to fix your issue you do you really need 
upstream to drop that call to close as well?

Stable release updates (SRU) are also possible in some cases but those
require extensive testing to ensure that regressions have a very very
low probability. You can read about this process:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

In general if you're interested in learning how to package, bugfix and
test X.org stuff properly, join us at #ubuntu-x on FreeNode IRC (we
could definitely use some more OpenChrome people to help out).

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