Comment 85 for bug 148454

> Does anybody know who the official maintainer of this package is? I am willing
> to work on getting the patch included in the kernel if this approach is
> acceptable to the ConsoleKit team, but I don't want to bother with the kernel
> side of things unless ConsoleKit will incorporate the changes also. I tried
> emailing Jon McCann but did not get any response.

This kind of hedging typically doesn't work were well in free software projects.
Don't let the lack of preapproval here keep you from getting the kernel side of things fixed.