RHEL 5 du (coreutils-5.97) -D flag handling bug causes -x to be ignored

Issue

On a RHEL 5.8 system(appears to apply to all 5.x) du version 5.97, from coreutils-5.97-34.el5_8.1, ignores the '-x' (--one-file-system) flag if the '-D' (--dereference-args) flag is specified after it on the command-line.

This bug appears to be due to incorrect bitfield handling in the du argument parsing and identified in 2006:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=367691

Can Redhat incorporate this patch? My current workaround is to specify '-x' last.