please add fix for bz 408596 to etch

[Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>]

Hello,

I'm hitting:

	http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=408596

On my ia64/etch install. This is causing problems for me when I
attempt to use sparse.

Is there any chance you could consider this fix for etch? The fix
itself looks very benign, and non-intrusive.

Thanks!

/ac