I hope this message does not automatically reopen it, I was just late with 
reading my mails.

> Just noticed that this bugreport didn't receive any love in the last time,

Indeed, not even mine. No, I didn't contact anyone else about my patches. Near 
the end of last year I came across this again but since nothing had happened, I 
didn't give it high priority and then forgot about it.

> Grml stopped shipping gnu-fdisk because gnu-fdisk doesn't play together
> with util-linux fdisk and caused to much headaches.

I prefer util-linux fdisk over gnu-fdisk by far, so I'm satisfied with the 
situation.

> ... would suggest contacting upstream if any patches need to be applied.

Right, I should do that. But these days I'm very occupied with my job. So, most 
likely I will not put much effort into it within the few months. When I manage 
to get my patches merged in upstream, I inform you, ok? Maybe I must 
investigate a bit, because leaving a testing version to be the last one for 
several years looks suspicious.