Comment 130 for bug 304889

I would like to repeat my question to Nicolas or anyone else qualified to answer (i.e. with whatever committing privileges are required). What would be needed to fix this, and would it be possible with a "drive-by contribution" amount of work? I definitely can't promise anything for time reasons, but I would at least like to take a look at what is involved if I had a bit of confidence that patches I might write would get somewhere.