diff --git a/rpm-4.7.90-python-refcounts.patch b/rpm-4.7.90-python-refcounts.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d01b573
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rpm-4.7.90-python-refcounts.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+diff --git a/python/header-py.c b/python/header-py.c
+index 0416058..539db0d 100644
+--- a/python/header-py.c
++++ b/python/header-py.c
+@@ -139,7 +139,9 @@ static PyObject * hdrKeyList(hdrObject * s)
+     rpmTag tag;
+ 
+     while ((tag = headerNextTag(hi)) != RPMTAG_NOT_FOUND) {
+-	PyList_Append(keys, PyInt_FromLong(tag));
++	PyObject *to = PyInt_FromLong(tag);
++	PyList_Append(keys, to);
++	Py_DECREF(to);
+     }
+     headerFreeIterator(hi);
+ 
+diff --git a/python/rpmtd-py.c b/python/rpmtd-py.c
+index eef35fe..1ba3a3d 100644
+--- a/python/rpmtd-py.c
++++ b/python/rpmtd-py.c
+@@ -46,7 +46,9 @@ PyObject *rpmtd_AsPyobj(rpmtd td)
+     if (array) {
+ 	res = PyList_New(0);
+ 	while (rpmtdNext(td) >= 0) {
+-	    PyList_Append(res, rpmtd_ItemAsPyobj(td, class));
++	    PyObject *item = rpmtd_ItemAsPyobj(td, class);
++	    PyList_Append(res, item);
++	    Py_DECREF(item);
+ 	}
+     } else {
+ 	res = rpmtd_ItemAsPyobj(td, class);
+diff --git a/python/rpmts-py.c b/python/rpmts-py.c
+index f774818..745b526 100644
+--- a/python/rpmts-py.c
++++ b/python/rpmts-py.c
+@@ -351,6 +351,7 @@ rpmts_HdrFromFdno(rpmtsObject * s, PyObject *arg)
+ 
+     if (rpmrc == RPMRC_OK) {
+ 	ho = hdr_Wrap(&hdr_Type, h);
++	h = headerFree(h); /* ref held by python object */
+     } else {
+ 	Py_INCREF(Py_None);
+ 	ho = Py_None;
+@@ -518,6 +519,7 @@ rpmts_Problems(rpmtsObject * s)
+     while (rpmpsNextIterator(psi) >= 0) {
+ 	PyObject *prob = rpmprob_Wrap(&rpmProblem_Type, rpmpsGetProblem(psi));
+ 	PyList_Append(problems, prob);
++	Py_DECREF(prob);
+     }
+     rpmpsFreeIterator(psi);
+     rpmpsFree(ps);
+diff --git a/python/spec-py.c b/python/spec-py.c
+index e162bb3..f5a4b33 100644
+--- a/python/spec-py.c
++++ b/python/spec-py.c
+@@ -177,6 +177,7 @@ static PyObject * spec_get_sources(specObject *s, void *closure)
+ 	PyObject *srcUrl = Py_BuildValue("(sii)", source->fullSource, 
+ 					 source->num, source->flags);
+ 	PyList_Append(sourceList, srcUrl);
++	Py_DECREF(srcUrl);
+     } 
+ 
+     return sourceList;
+@@ -192,6 +193,7 @@ static PyObject * spec_get_packages(specObject *s, void *closure)
+     for (pkg = spec->packages; pkg; pkg = pkg->next) {
+ 	PyObject *po = specPkg_Wrap(&specPkg_Type, pkg);
+ 	PyList_Append(pkgList, po);
++	Py_DECREF(po);
+     }
+     return pkgList;
+ }
diff --git a/rpm.spec b/rpm.spec
index e52386e..b20313a 100644
--- a/rpm.spec
+++ b/rpm.spec
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 Summary: The RPM package management system
 Name: rpm
 Version: %{rpmver}
-Release: 0.%{snapver}.2
+Release: 0.%{snapver}.3
 Group: System Environment/Base
 Url: http://www.rpm.org/
 Source0: http://rpm.org/releases/testing/%{name}-%{srcver}.tar.bz2
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ Patch3: rpm-4.7.90-fedora-specspo.patch
 
 # Patches already in upstream
 Patch200: rpm-4.7.90-python-bytecompile.patch
+Patch201: rpm-4.7.90-python-refcounts.patch
 
 # These are not yet upstream
 Patch301: rpm-4.6.0-niagara.patch
@@ -183,6 +184,7 @@ packages on a system.
 %patch3 -p1 -b .fedora-specspo
 
 %patch200 -p1 -b .python-bytecompile
+%patch201 -p1 -b .python-refcounts
 
 %patch301 -p1 -b .niagara
 %patch302 -p1 -b .geode
@@ -397,6 +399,9 @@ exit 0
 %doc doc/librpm/html/*
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Dec 09 2009 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> - 4.8.0-0.beta1.3
+- fix a bunch of python refcount-errors causing major memory leaks
+
 * Mon Dec 07 2009 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> - 4.8.0-0.beta1.2
 - fix noise from python bytecompile on non-python packages (#539635)
 - make all our -devel [build]requires isa-specific