Support for packages – Bug or Feature Request?

I’m currently working on a heavily customized store that requires me to split the customer’s order into multiple packages based on shipping class. These items are put in a separate package and they then need to be excluded from shipping calculations.

I have some basic rates set up based on “price” with a min/max value. However, when there are multiple packages in the cart, the plugin uses the cart total instead of the package total to calculate the applicable shipping rate.

I’ve solved this for my situation by using $contents_cost = $package[‘contents_cost’]; instead of the default $content_cost calculation in shipping_method.php. But that means I am frozen on the current version and cannot upgrade the plugin normally.

I’m wondering if this is a bug, or a feature request? Maybe it is built in to the Pro version. I love this plugin because it integrates with the new WC Shipping Zones out of the box and has a very simple but powerful interface. Thank you!