diff -Nru germinate-2.16/debian/changelog germinate-2.16.1/debian/changelog
--- germinate-2.16/debian/changelog	2014-04-03 14:40:06.000000000 +0000
+++ germinate-2.16.1/debian/changelog	2014-04-25 09:30:23.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+germinate (2.16.1) trusty; urgency=medium
+
+  * Bump recursion limit to 3000; apparently utopic trips over the existing
+    limit (LP: #1312478).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>  Fri, 25 Apr 2014 10:30:22 +0100
+
 germinate (2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * Quote slashes in suite names when constructing local tag file names
diff -Nru germinate-2.16/germinate/germinator.py germinate-2.16.1/germinate/germinator.py
--- germinate-2.16/germinate/germinator.py	2013-10-11 16:27:42.000000000 +0000
+++ germinate-2.16.1/germinate/germinator.py	2014-04-25 09:30:11.000000000 +0000
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 from germinate.seeds import AtomicFile, SeedStructure, _ensure_unicode
 
 # TODO: would be much more elegant to reduce our recursion depth!
-sys.setrecursionlimit(2000)
+sys.setrecursionlimit(3000)
 
 
 __all__ = [