I struggled to find this in the Django ticketing system when I posted it, but I searched again this morning and found a few bugs that seem to be related. They were closed with comments indicating that https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/10060 seems to be the root cause. Looks like this is a known, longstanding issue.
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