Comment # 48 on bug 1017652 from Andreas Stieger

(In reply to Peter Keller from comment #46)
> I agree: it is really annoying that this patch is taking so long to appear.
> I hope that we aren't going to have to wait until openSUSE 15 to get it. I
> guess that the problem is that relatively few people happen to have files
> that trigger the bug, so backporting it into 42.3 isn't seen as a priority.
> I only see this for one user on one machine myself.

It will be released once the fix has been verified. So far this is not the
case, see comment #47.

> P.S. Am I right in thinking that I am the only person who has voted for this
> bug? If more people voted for it, that might help.

Not really. The determining factor would be for a fix to be available. In this
case, via SLE maintenance which will then quickly be imported into Leap
updates.