Comment 7 for bug 1753938

It isn't really upstream yet, Samuel usually asks for pulls on the start of a version.
fd06527b was the last for 2.12 so I'd assume it only gets "really upstream" around mid-May.

Of course under the current conditions we can assume this patch will make it.

The question is now your urgency:
a) is having #1 without #2 in Ubuntu 18.04 super important for you(only then worth the hazzle so late), then lets consider taking that one back in.
b) or are you just as fine with the qemu in Ubuntu 18.10. In that case given history we would look at 2.12 maybe 2.12.1 (Expecting rather late 2018 release of 2.13). But at the time we would work on qemu 2.12 for Ubuntu 18.10 your changes would be upstream and we could pick them into "our" 2.12 from qemu/master.

So it is up to you, if you think you can (and want to) convince the Release Team of an FFE for change #1.
If so please as I mentioned before open a new bug, make it an FFE, explain all you need why you think so, and if possible subscribe me right away.

Otherwise if b) is enough lets work together on it later this year.