On 27.01.2014 01:31, Reuben Thomas wrote:

That's a pity: this patch has been available in its current form for
nearly a year, and I last pinged a couple of weeks before feature
freeze. But I await 24.4 with impatience too!

Alas, this bug wasn't tagged as having a patch, so it eluded the pre-feature freeze call-to-arms.