This reverts commit 52bab025.

It silently conflicted with another commit,
90ca3b4d, which was merged later than
it. I’ve kept commit 90ca3b because it also frees the GError; 52bab
doesn’t.

This is my failure to rebase and test old branches before merging them,
instead of assuming that the lack of automatically detected merge
conflicts actually means there are no merge conflicts.