diff -Nru sflphone-1.3.0/debian/changelog sflphone-1.3.0/debian/changelog
--- sflphone-1.3.0/debian/changelog	2014-01-28 07:23:42.000000000 +0000
+++ sflphone-1.3.0/debian/changelog	2014-04-16 15:16:23.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+sflphone (1.3.0-1ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=medium
+
+  * Drop G_APPLICATION_IS_SERVICE flag when creating a new gnome
+    client. Thus allow launching the gnome client, instead of silently
+    quitting and do nothing. (LP: #1299967)
+
+ -- Dimitri John Ledkov <xnox@ubuntu.com>  Wed, 16 Apr 2014 15:56:01 +0100
+
 sflphone (1.3.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * New upstream release 
diff -Nru sflphone-1.3.0/debian/control sflphone-1.3.0/debian/control
--- sflphone-1.3.0/debian/control	2014-01-27 20:28:03.000000000 +0000
+++ sflphone-1.3.0/debian/control	2014-04-16 14:57:03.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 Source: sflphone
 Section: comm
 Priority: extra
-Maintainer: Debian VoIP Team <pkg-voip-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
+Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
+XSBC-Original-Maintainer: Debian VoIP Team <pkg-voip-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Mark Purcell <msp@debian.org>
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), autotools-dev, autoconf, automake, libtool, chrpath, check, astyle,
 # sflphone-daemon
diff -Nru sflphone-1.3.0/debian/patches/drop-service-flag.patch sflphone-1.3.0/debian/patches/drop-service-flag.patch
--- sflphone-1.3.0/debian/patches/drop-service-flag.patch	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ sflphone-1.3.0/debian/patches/drop-service-flag.patch	2014-04-16 14:56:51.000000000 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+Description: Drop G_APPLICATION_IS_SERVICE flag when creating a new gnome client
+Author: Dimitri John Ledkov <xnox@ubuntu.com>
+Bug-Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1299967
+
+--- sflphone-1.3.0.orig/gnome/src/sflphone_client.c
++++ sflphone-1.3.0/gnome/src/sflphone_client.c
+@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ sflphone_client_new()
+ {
+     SFLPhoneClient *client = g_object_new(sflphone_client_get_type(),
+             "application-id", "org.sfl.SFLphone",
+-            "flags", G_APPLICATION_HANDLES_COMMAND_LINE | G_APPLICATION_IS_SERVICE, NULL);
++            "flags", G_APPLICATION_HANDLES_COMMAND_LINE, NULL);
+     return client;
+ }
+ 
diff -Nru sflphone-1.3.0/debian/patches/series sflphone-1.3.0/debian/patches/series
--- sflphone-1.3.0/debian/patches/series	2014-01-21 11:46:32.000000000 +0000
+++ sflphone-1.3.0/debian/patches/series	2014-04-16 14:56:36.000000000 +0000
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 02_target_s390.patch
+drop-service-flag.patch