You are the maintainter now, so you can fix it any way you want. I wanted to help, but clearly that is not welcome.
Please let me remind you that a custodian is NOT here to do your share of the work for you and that nasty remarks will get you exactly nowhere.
There's nothing like "my share of work". I'm not a slave, I can choose what I do with my free time.
If you plan to help, then please prepare a patch which applies against current mainline and meets all the usual criteria ; this should not be that difficult afterall.
As I explained in my initial email, this is against your internal tree, not mainline. And yes, meeting "all the usual criteria" is hard, when the criteria are not listed anywhere. If you can provide the list, it may be easier.
For the record, I believe that wasting bandwith with patch resend because "it does not have right keywords in subject" would be wrong, especially since I clearly got your attention already. Other "usual criteria" you like to reject my patches with are "uses printf()" and "there are other bugs around the one you fixed". Those are not "usual criteria" in other opensource projects.
Pavel