I need e2fsprogs > 1.14.11 on 10.04.4 LTS server (lucid). What is my best option?

e2fsprogs 1.41.14 would be a step up, but ideally, I'd like 1.42. Everything I've read so far says back porting a package from a newer distro is a nightmare because of dependencies (Primarily libc). I'd like to avoid breaking the package system, but if I have to remove the old one and build from source I will. Hopefully there is a better way?

<rant> I gotta say I'm rather annoyed that a distro *claiming* long term support is so laxidasical about keeping critical system tools up to date. 1.41.11 is known to be broken, and is currently biting me in the ass. </rant>

[EDIT] I pulled the newest version via git and built it against the existing libraries. Every volume that passed as clean under 1.41.11 was at minimum 8% non-contiguous under 1.42, with the worst being 18%. The ext4 errors reported by the kernel at boot are gone.