Hi Martin, I'm a Cheese developer.
I think the "important" bug Loic did talk about was the one about webcams 
supporting just one resolution not working properly. The other modifications 
are just minor leak fixes.

I explicitly asked Loic to open this SRU for the improved debug information 
about the webcam devices.
Particularly the commit about Vendor and Product Id is the one I care most.
As you probably know with 2.6.27 kernel series (so, with Ubuntu Intrepid) v4l 
decoding stuff has been moved from kernel to a userspace library, libv4l. Many 
webcam drivers that were developed out of mainstream have been included in 
mainline kernel. New code means new bugs at driver level that most of users 
just see as Cheese bugs. So, we received, and still receive a lot of bug 
reports about webcams devices not working anymore with Cheese. That patch would 
greatly speed up bug triaging because we wouldn't have to ask questions like 
"Which webcam do you have?" or "Which driver does it uses?".
Since a great part of our userbase use Ubuntu Intrepid it would be great to 
have at least that patch included.
Regarding the other commits, I don't really think it's so much code, just 
normal bugfixes that we considered unharmful enough for 2.24 series. (By the 
way, I thought GNOME 2.24.x series had some kind of fast path with SRUs, isn't 
it?)
Thank you for looking at this,
Filippo

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