diff -Nru glib2.0-2.40.0/debian/changelog glib2.0-2.40.0/debian/changelog
--- glib2.0-2.40.0/debian/changelog	2014-08-10 17:59:24.000000000 -0400
+++ glib2.0-2.40.0/debian/changelog	2014-08-28 19:59:12.000000000 -0400
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+glib2.0 (2.40.0-4.1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Non-maintainer upload.
+  * Bug fix: "build gobject with -Wl,nodelete to prevent unloading",
+    thanks to Jason Pleau (Closes: #752544).
+
+ -- Reinhard Tartler <siretart@tauware.de>  Thu, 28 Aug 2014 19:59:09 -0400
+
 glib2.0 (2.40.0-4) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * Team upload
diff -Nru glib2.0-2.40.0/debian/patches/link-nodelete.patch glib2.0-2.40.0/debian/patches/link-nodelete.patch
--- glib2.0-2.40.0/debian/patches/link-nodelete.patch	1969-12-31 19:00:00.000000000 -0500
+++ glib2.0-2.40.0/debian/patches/link-nodelete.patch	2014-08-28 19:56:51.000000000 -0400
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+From 3662eb9759fe225d1c214db6927c667a1b733e8a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetromino@gentoo.org>
+Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 13:59:18 -0400
+Subject: gobject: try to link with -Wl,-z,nodelete
+
+Since the type system does not support reloading its data and assumes
+that libgobject remains loaded for the lifetime of the process, we
+should link libgobject with a flag indicating that it can't be unloaded.
+
+https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=707298
+
+--- a/configure.ac
++++ b/configure.ac
+@@ -3468,6 +3468,40 @@ fi
+ AC_SUBST(GLIB_LINK_FLAGS)
+ 
+ dnl
++dnl Check for -z,nodelete linker flag: the type system assumes that
++dnl libgobject stays loaded for the lifetime of the process.
++dnl Since ld.bfd does not treat wrong -z options as fatal by default,
++dnl we also try to check for the --fatal-warnings linker flag if
++dnl auto-detecting.
++dnl
++
++AC_ARG_ENABLE([znodelete],
++              [AS_HELP_STRING([--disable-znodelete],
++                              [avoid linking with -z,nodelete])],,
++              [SAVED_LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS}"
++               AC_MSG_CHECKING([for --fatal-warnings linker flag])
++               LDFLAGS=-Wl,--fatal-warnings
++               AC_TRY_LINK([], [int main (void) { return 0; }],
++                           AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
++                           [ldflags_fatal=-Wl,--fatal-warnings],
++                           AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
++                           ldflags_fatal=)
++               AC_MSG_CHECKING([for -z,nodelete linker flag])
++               LDFLAGS="$ldflags_fatal -Wl,-z,nodelete"
++               AC_TRY_LINK([], [int main (void) { return 0; }],
++                           AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
++                           enable_znodelete=yes,
++                           AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
++                           enable_znodelete=no)
++               LDFLAGS="${SAVED_LDFLAGS}"])
++
++if test "x${enable_znodelete}" = "xyes"; then
++  GOBJECT_LINK_FLAGS=-Wl,-z,nodelete
++fi
++
++AC_SUBST(GOBJECT_LINK_FLAGS)
++
++dnl
+ dnl Check for -fvisibility=hidden to determine if we can do GNU-style
+ dnl visibility attributes for symbol export control
+ dnl
+--- a/gobject/Makefile.am
++++ b/gobject/Makefile.am
+@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ endif
+ 
+ libgobjectincludedir = $(includedir)/glib-2.0/gobject
+ libgobject_2_0_la_LDFLAGS = $(GLIB_LINK_FLAGS) \
++  $(GOBJECT_LINK_FLAGS) \
+   $(gobject_win32_res_ldflag) \
+   -version-info $(LT_CURRENT):$(LT_REVISION):$(LT_AGE) \
+   -export-dynamic $(no_undefined)
diff -Nru glib2.0-2.40.0/debian/patches/series glib2.0-2.40.0/debian/patches/series
--- glib2.0-2.40.0/debian/patches/series	2014-08-10 17:37:19.000000000 -0400
+++ glib2.0-2.40.0/debian/patches/series	2014-08-28 19:56:38.000000000 -0400
@@ -21,3 +21,4 @@
 regex-test-do-not-assert-that-system-PCRE-allows-P-1.patch
 regex-test-do-not-assert-that-system-PCRE-still-has-.patch
 gvariant-tests-workaround-libc-compiler-issue.patch
+link-nodelete.patch