Excerpts from Sebastien Bacher's message of 2012-05-31 08:54:24 UTC:
> Clint, on the diff when filtering out "noise":
> 
> $ debdiff --exclude *win32* --exclude tests* --exclude Makefile.in --exclude po --exclude docs --exclude ChangeLog --exclude configure --exclude *generated* glib2.0_2.32.1-0ubuntu2.dsc glib2.0_2.32.3-0ubuntu1.dsc | diffstat
> ...
>  INSTALL                                                 |    4 
>  NEWS                                                    |   75 
>  README                                                  |    2 
>  configure.ac                                            |   16 
>  debian/changelog                                        |   12 
>  debian/control                                          |    2 
>  debian/control.in                                       |    2 
>  debian/patches/git_powerpc_gresources.patch             |   28 
>  debian/patches/gnetworkmonitor_dont_leak_networks.patch |   21 
>  debian/patches/series                                   |    2 
>  gio/Makefile.am                                         |   25 
>  gio/dbus-daemon.xml                                     |   76 
>  gio/gapplication.c                                      |   57 
>  gio/gapplicationimpl-dbus.c                             |    6 
>  gio/gconverterinputstream.c                             |   12 
>  gio/gdbus-2.0/codegen/config.py                         |    2 
>  gio/gdbus-2.0/codegen/utils.py                          |    7 
>  gio/gdbusaddress.c                                      |  306 ++
>  gio/gdbusdaemon.c                                       | 1752 ++++++++++++++++
>  gio/gdbusdaemon.h                                       |   19 
>  gio/gdbusprivate.c                                      |   42 
>  gio/gdbusserver.c                                       |    5 
>  gio/gdesktopappinfo.c                                   |    3 
>  gio/gio.rc                                              |    8 
>  gio/gioenums.h                                          |    9 
>  gio/giomodule-priv.h                                    |    4 
>  gio/giomodule.c                                         |    6 
>  gio/gproxyaddressenumerator.c                           |   95 
>  gio/gresource.c                                         |    5 
>  gio/gresourcefile.c                                     |    1 
>  gio/gsocketcontrolmessage.c                             |   11 
>  glib/glib.rc                                            |    8 
>  glib/gmain.c                                            |   35 
>  glib/gutils.h                                           |    2 
>  gmodule/gmodule.rc                                      |    8 
>  gobject/gobject.h                                       |    4 
>  gobject/gobject.rc                                      |    8 
>  gthread/gthread.rc                                      |    8 
>  38 files changed, 2543 insertions(+), 145 deletions(-)
> 
> so the diff is around 2690 lines, 1771 of those being the gdbusdaemon
> for win32 use, it means the remaining diff is around 900 lines of actual
> changes, it's not trivial but far from the 34k you listed
> 

Agreed. Thanks for giving me some help in isolating the changes.

This is still inappropriate as an SRU. The policy is pretty clear, bugs
that can be fixed in SRU are:

* Severe regressions
* loss of user data
* Bugs which do not fit under above categories, but (1) have an obviously safe patch and (2) affect an application rather than critical infrastructure packages (like X.org or the kernel)
* New hardware
* New commercial software
* FTBFS

Policy allows micro releases if *all* of the changes match this
criteria. While the changes you filtered out are not relevant, none of
them meet this policy.

So, I can't really ignore all of those things that you filtered out.

I know that some other micro-releases that skirt this policy have been
accepted, but they matched the third criteria above. glib is critical
infrastructure, so I have to keep that in mind.

The reason for the policy isn't to be annoying. Its to preserve the SRU
team's time and make sure we are reviewing *EVERY* change that goes into
the stable release.

An appropriate SRU would just add the patch:

gnetworkmonitor_dont_leak_networks.patch.

Rejecting upload, please re-upload as a patch, not a new upstream release.