It's still a problem AFAICT. Level of interest is a different matter.

Django has needed this since 2006, so we've always shipped a locally modified copy of the doctest module. 

That said, Django is in the process of moving away from using and recommending doctests, so there's a good chance that we'll be deprecating our local copy in the near future. 

There's still value in the idea -- it provides configuration points that are consistent and reasonable -- but Django's need for this set of changes is waning.