It's up to someone else with merge access to commit it. Much thanks to @dan for the lightning fast merge with my 2.44 PR.
This time around, the Makefile.patch required a minor tweak, to reflect a minor tweak in the upstream's Makefile as well. Hopefully everything is OK? Preliminary testing on my end went alright but it took me a little longer to find sufficient focus to make that change than I would have liked.
(My own personal life is still sigh hectic and about the same as far as challenges [mostly housing/homeless and financial/debt related] C'est la vie!)