Hi!
Thanks for letting me know, I've now dropped that patch (others complained about it for other reasons) and will push out a -rc2 with that fix.
I did wonder why the offending patch was included, but then I figured that I lost the "we apply too many patches to stable releases" battle, and I didn't want to re-litigate it.
I usually much rather take prerequisite patches rather than do backports, which is why that patch was selected.
Unfortunately, that results in less useful -stable.
Best regards, Pavel