I honestly want to backport it because I think it should not have any negative impact, but on the other hand I don't feel very confident as the release candidate phase is supposed to be as close as possible as the final release and this is not fixing a critical bug. The devguide says about the RC:


>>Generally, these issues must be severe enough (e.g. crashes) that they deserve fixing before the final release. All other issues should be deferred to the next development cycle, since stability is the strongest concern at this point.

I am just trying to be cautious but on the other hand we still have anltbet release candidate for people to try it out before the final release so if you all think is better to have this on the RC and this is not going to be an issue for existing universal wheels and the like, then I suppose we can merge it before Rc2