[jfindley]

I think there's a bit of a distinction between patches that add functionality not accepted by upstream (as here) vs the more typical distro patches which do things like replace bundled libs with shared ones, fix locations for things like TLS bundles, that sort of thing. These can still break things, but much less frequently.

I haven't been a distro packager in many years, but my recollection is that in other distros (debian, fedora, arch, etc) patches that add new functionality would generally not be considered okay unless accepted by upstream. I'd be interested to learn the rationale for not upstreaming this patch before including it.