Thanks for the links! I stumbled upon #2 yesterday before patching the source, but somehow I missed #1. #2 doesn't seem all that relevant to me, except for signaling that there might or might not be some improvement coming from upstream in the long run. #1 looks pretty similar to my patch. But this thread is from 2010 and dead, so I don't expect that to be implemented anymore.
bottom line: Could you please include my patch in the Debian package until upstream comes up with something similar?
