I don't have any ability to review that patch, so until it is applied upstream I won't apply it to Debian either. (It doesn't have to be in a release - just accepted by the media maintainer.)
I've just learned the patch has been applied to the media tree on 11th December - I somehow missed this.
Best regards Janusz --Prof. dr hab. Janusz S. Bień - Uniwersytet Warszawski (Katedra Lingwistyki Formalnej)
Prof. Janusz S. Bień - University of Warsaw (Formal Linguistics Department) jsbien@uw.edu.pl, jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl, http://fleksem.klf.uw.edu.pl/~jsbien/