diff -u subversion-1.4.4dfsg1/debian/changelog subversion-1.4.4dfsg1/debian/changelog
--- subversion-1.4.4dfsg1/debian/changelog
+++ subversion-1.4.4dfsg1/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+subversion (1.4.4dfsg1-1ubuntu5) hardy; urgency=medium
+
+  * Add debian/patches/python-memleak: Fix major memory leak in the 
+    Python bindings. Taken from Debian SVN head. (LP: #54253)
+
+ -- Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org>  Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:28:28 +0100
+
 subversion (1.4.4dfsg1-1ubuntu4) hardy; urgency=low
 
   * debian/control:
diff -u subversion-1.4.4dfsg1/debian/patches/00list subversion-1.4.4dfsg1/debian/patches/00list
--- subversion-1.4.4dfsg1/debian/patches/00list
+++ subversion-1.4.4dfsg1/debian/patches/00list
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 last-changed-date-charset
 no-extra-libs
 no-extra-libs-2
+python-memleak
 repos-templates
 rpath
 ruby-no-strict-aliasing
only in patch2:
unchanged:
--- subversion-1.4.4dfsg1.orig/debian/patches/python-memleak
+++ subversion-1.4.4dfsg1/debian/patches/python-memleak
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#! /bin/sh /usr/share/dpatch/dpatch-run
+## python-memleak by <jelmer@samba.org>
+##
+## DP: Fix a serious memory leak in the Python bindings.
+## DP: Upstream trunk r28544.
+
+@DPATCH@
+Index: subversion/bindings/swig/python/libsvn_swig_py/swigutil_py.c
+===================================================================
+--- a/subversion/bindings/swig/python/libsvn_swig_py/swigutil_py.c
++++ b/subversion/bindings/swig/python/libsvn_swig_py/swigutil_py.c
+@@ -780,8 +780,10 @@
+   PyObject *new_py_pool = svn_swig_NewPointerObj(new_pool, \
+     svn_swig_TypeQuery("apr_pool_t *"), application_py_pool, NULL); \
+   svn_##type##_t *new_value = dup(value, new_pool); \
+-  return svn_swig_NewPointerObjString(new_value, "svn_" #type "_t *", \
+-      new_py_pool); \
++  PyObject *obj = svn_swig_NewPointerObjString(new_value, "svn_" #type "_t *", \
++                                               new_py_pool); \
++  Py_XDECREF(new_py_pool); \
++  return obj; \
+ }
+ 
+ DECLARE_SWIG_CONSTRUCTOR(txdelta_window, svn_txdelta_window_dup)