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Thank you @pkerling for submitting this patch. The fix looks sane to me.
You'll have to sign the contributor agreement before this proceeds, though.
Also, you'll have to add a Misc/NEWS entry, or you can let a core developer do it for you.

Tried to add a NEWS entry.

Hi, what's the status? Do I still need to do something? This is a small fix and it's sitting here for quite some time now.

Friendly ping :-)

Hi @pkerling

I'm sorry for letting this slip. In turn there are two issues:

• I hadn't noticed, but you submitted your PR against the 2.7 branch; instead, you should submit it against the default branch and we'll backport it ourselves
• in the meantime, we switched from editing Misc/NEWS directly to using a dedicated tool that avoids merge conflicts: this means you must not change Misc/NEWS but use the blurb utility instead which will generate a separate self-contained file for this issue.

Superseded by #7146