Comment 68 for bug 627134

The importance field refers to Ubuntu as a whole, not just to the Inkscape package. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Importance for details of what each importance means. Accordingly, I'll bump it up to "Medium" with the rationale that it is "A bug that has a severe impact on a non-core application." I don't think the importance can reasonably be set higher because this bug doesn't affect a core Ubuntu application.

There's not much point in patching the existing Ubuntu package right now. Inkscape 0.48.1 is due to be released very shortly, and this will fix numerous bugs. As soon as it is released, we can package it for Ubuntu.