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Thanks to jmclean for raising this issue in the mailing list thread:
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r2df54c11c10d3d38443054998bc7dd92d34362641733c2fb7c579b50%40%3Cdev.kafka.apache.org%3E
GitHub Pull Request #10452