@john_ferrier: As I said, your reported behaviour is not a bug, it’s the other way arround. See github.com/SublimeText/Issues/issues/71.
However, I’d like to ask @jps what he thinks about having the default packages (C++, Python …) uploaded to github while having selected people watch over them and just pulling them for every release (maybe checking commits for the changelog). With this we could easily fix issues like this one without having you bother with these external things.