Bug#778485: battstat-applet: memory leak

[CoCoZ]

Package: gnome-applets
Version: 3.8.1-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?
The battstat-applet is consumming more and more memory

while true ; do ps aux|grep battsta[t] ; sleep 1h ;done
me    15631  1.8  0.2 334788 22736 ?        Sl   14:17   0:00 /usr/lib/gnome-applets/battstat-applet-2
me    15631  0.0  0.3 336912 28808 ?        Sl   14:17   0:03 /usr/lib/gnome-applets/battstat-applet-2
me    15631  0.1  0.4 339508 35732 ?        Sl   14:17   0:07 /usr/lib/gnome-applets/battstat-applet-2
me    15631  0.1  0.5 342336 42752 ?        Sl   14:17   0:13 /usr/lib/gnome-applets/battstat-applet-2
me    15631  0.1  0.6 344800 49520 ?        Sl   14:17   0:21 /usr/lib/gnome-applets/battstat-applet-2
me    15631  0.1  0.7 347828 56636 ?        Sl   14:17   0:30 /usr/lib/gnome-applets/battstat-applet-2
me    15631  0.1  0.7 350344 63616 ?        Sl   14:17   0:41 /usr/lib/gnome-applets/battstat-applet-2
me    15631  0.2  0.8 352824 70132 ?        Sl   14:17   0:54 /usr/lib/gnome-applets/battstat-applet-2
me    15631  0.2  0.9 355404 77224 ?        Sl   14:17   1:09 /usr/lib/gnome-applets/battstat-applet-2
me    15631  0.2  1.0 357648 83812 ?        Sl   14:17   1:28 /usr/lib/gnome-applets/battstat-applet-2
me    15631  0.2  1.1 361484 90928 ?        Sl   Feb14   1:46 /usr/lib/gnome-applets/battstat-applet-2
me    15631  0.3  1.2 363804 97636 ?        Sl   Feb14   2:04 /usr/lib/gnome-applets/battstat-applet-2
me    15631  0.3  1.3 366272 104688 ?       Sl   Feb14   2:23 /usr/lib/gnome-applets/battstat-applet-2
me    15631  0.3  1.3 369060 111632 ?       Sl   Feb14   2:44 /usr/lib/gnome-applets/battstat-applet-2
me    15631  0.3  1.4 371388 118188 ?       Sl   Feb14   3:07 /usr/lib/gnome-applets/battstat-applet-2
me    15631  0.3  1.5 374024 125472 ?       Sl   Feb14   3:31 /usr/lib/gnome-applets/battstat-applet-2
me    15631  0.4  1.6 441884 132152 ?       Sl   Feb14   3:56 /usr/lib/gnome-applets/battstat-applet-2
me    15631  0.4  1.7 444204 138884 ?       Sl   Feb14   4:23 /usr/lib/gnome-applets/battstat-applet-2
me    15631  0.4  1.8 446528 145840 ?       Sl   Feb14   4:51 /usr/lib/gnome-applets/battstat-applet-2
me    15631  0.4  1.9 450480 152772 ?       Sl   Feb14   5:21 /usr/lib/gnome-applets/battstat-applet-2
me    15631  0.4  1.9 454008 159604 ?       Sl   Feb14   5:57 /usr/lib/gnome-applets/battstat-applet-2
me    15631  0.5  2.0 456336 166232 ?       Rl   Feb14   6:31 /usr/lib/gnome-applets/battstat-applet-2
me    15631  0.5  2.1 458892 172496 ?       Sl   Feb14   7:05 /usr/lib/gnome-applets/battstat-applet-2
me    15631  0.5  2.2 461392 180512 ?       Sl   Feb14   7:41 /usr/lib/gnome-applets/battstat-applet-2
me    15631  0.5  2.3 476528 192324 ?       Sl   Feb14   8:19 /usr/lib/gnome-applets/battstat-applet-2
me    15631  0.5  2.4 479884 198664 ?       Sl   Feb14   8:58 /usr/lib/gnome-applets/battstat-applet-2
me    15631  0.6  2.5 482232 205580 ?       Sl   Feb14   9:38 /usr/lib/gnome-applets/battstat-applet-2
me    15631  0.6  2.6 484576 212264 ?       Sl   Feb14  10:28 /usr/lib/gnome-applets/battstat-applet-2
me    15631  0.6  2.7 486928 218508 ?       Sl   Feb14  11:11 /usr/lib/gnome-applets/battstat-applet-2

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
I restart battstat-applet periodically

   * What was the outcome of this action?
Temporarily free memory

   * What outcome did you expect instead?
No memory leak



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (1001, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages gnome-applets depends on:
ii  gconf-service                    3.2.6-3
ii  gconf2                           3.2.6-3
ii  gir1.2-gconf-2.0                 3.2.6-3
ii  gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0             2.31.1-2+b1
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0                   3.14.5-1
ii  gir1.2-panelapplet-4.0           3.8.1-7+b1
ii  gnome-applets-data               3.8.1-1
ii  gnome-icon-theme                 3.12.0-1
ii  gnome-panel                      3.8.1-7+b1
ii  gvfs                             1.22.2-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                      2.14.0-1
ii  libc6                            2.19-13
ii  libcairo2                        1.14.0-2.1
ii  libcpufreq0                      008-1
ii  libdbus-1-3                      1.8.12-3
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2                 0.102-1
ii  libgconf-2-4                     3.2.6-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0               2.31.1-2+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0                     2.42.1-1
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0  0.10.36-2
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0               0.10.36-1.5
ii  libgtk-3-0                       3.14.5-1
ii  libgtop2-7                       2.28.5-2+b1
ii  libgucharmap-2-90-7              1:3.14.1-1
ii  libgweather-3-6                  3.14.1-1
ii  libnotify4                       0.7.6-2
ii  libpanel-applet-4-0              3.8.1-7+b1
ii  libpango-1.0-0                   1.36.8-3
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0              1.36.8-3
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0            0.105-8
ii  libupower-glib3                  0.99.1-3.1
ii  libwnck-3-0                      3.4.9-3
ii  libx11-6                         2:1.6.2-3
ii  libxml2                          2.9.1+dfsg1-4
ii  python-gi                        3.14.0-1
pn  python:any                       <none>
ii  upower                           0.99.1-3.1

Versions of packages gnome-applets recommends:
ii  gnome-media               3.4.0-2
ii  gnome-system-monitor      3.14.1-1
ii  gstreamer0.10-alsa        0.10.36-2
ii  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio  0.10.31-3+nmu4+b1
ii  policykit-1-gnome         0.105-2

Versions of packages gnome-applets suggests:
ii  tomboy  1.14.1-3

-- no debconf information