Hmm, not that I know of. Probably the best way would be to just attach the patch and a note (readme or something) to svn. After Lazarus 0.9.23 is released, it can be merged (I guess there is no reason for downward compatibility then).
On the other hand ... someone who uses the Imaging Lib from svn, probably also uses Lazarus from svn (or at least he has the necessary skills to do so ;)).
On the other hand ... someone who uses the Imaging Lib from svn, probably also uses Lazarus from svn (or at least he has the necessary skills to do so ;)).