Comment 23 for bug 1892245

I was of your same opinion in the beginning, but then I realised that while that one-liner should be the fix, it has not been designed nor tested to be used on top of version 31 (the version currently available in focal) but on top of version 38. If you check the debian/changelog you can notice that in fact the fix is what bumped the package version from 38-1 to 38-2.

Hence to me it seems a greater risk to cherry-pick that fix alone on version 31, and then be on our own, rather than using version 38 with the fix, which is where it was intended and released upstream.

As for the potential of regression, there is none in my opinion, as the current version of the package breaks the interaction so badly that it becomes completely unusable, so this change can only be an improvement on that side.