Bug#403639: Memory leaks happens when destroying a GdkWindow

[Attilio Fiandrotti]

package: libgtk-directfb-2.0-0
severity: serious
tags: upsteam

It was recently found that during a g-i installation the GTK frontend 
can easily cause an out of memory error, due to the big amount of memory 
allocated at every installation step (nearly 1 MB).

After some investigations with test GTK applications, the problem was 
found to be [1] in the way gdk/directfb releases resources when a 
gdkwindow is destroyed ( i suspect because of [1] a missing 
g_object_unref() somewhere, but that's just my supposition ).

Awaiting now a reply from gtk/dfb maintainers.
CC'ing debian-boot as this strongly impacts on g-i usability.

[1] 
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2006-December/msg00063.html

Attilio Fiandrotti