Bug#773915: Why not upstream?

[Andreas Henriksson]

Hello Raphaël Halimi.

Thanks for your bug report and patch!

I'd like to question a conflict I see in the reasoning around
"Forwarded: not-needed".

Why should this not be forwarded upstream?
What harm would this change do upstream?
If it's not suitable for upstream, why would it be suitable for debian?

glib is a critical component which atleast me (which is not the
one deciding this) would like to avoid patching at all.
In general I also think that adding patches which will have
to be carried *forever* is something you never want to add
(unless absolutely necessary).

I think it's important to atleast have answers to these
questions on the record for the future....

Regards,
Andreas Henriksson