SpamAssassin DNS errors

Hi - I use spamassassin to scan incomming emails and I see the following errors in syslog:

spamd[855]: dns: sendto() to [::1]:53 failed: Connection refused, failing over to [127.0.0.1]:53
spamd[855]: dns: sendto() to [127.0.0.1]:53 failed: Connection refused, failing over to [::1]:53
spamd[855]: dns: bad dns reply: bgread: recv() failed: Connection refused at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Mail/SpamAssassin/DnsResolver.pm line 742, line 164.

I found a bug related to spamd that matches exactly this including a fix: 1985587 – spamd starts before resolv.conf setup, causing DNS resolution errors

That fix is not applied to the spamassassin version manjaro is shipping although the version is matching the version that should include that fix. What is wrong here?