Bug#188433: Upstream won't fix?

[Moritz Naumann]

According to the timeline of
  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126468
and the mention of this bug in the "past notes on improvement" section on
  http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/plans.html
upstream has not been unable to, not sufficiently interested in or
discarded plans to fix this issue. A Debian patch would thus be very
handy. Unfortunately, I am unable to provide one myself at this time.