Bug#895990: gdm3: memory leak (known upstream)

[Simon McVittie]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 at 13:23:51 +0200, Dennis Grunert wrote:
> the gdm3 process has a memory leak

It's a lot more complicated than that, unfortunately. You're reporting the
symptom, but the cause involves gjs and gnome-shell, and the solutions are
also spread between packages.

> This bug is known upstream, see
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-shell/+bug/1672297

gjs (>= 1.52.3-2) in unstable has some of the changes from there, although
probably not all.

The branch of gjs in stable is 1½ years older than the branch in
unstable, and uses an incompatible version of the mozjs JavaScript
implementation, so backporting these changes to gjs 1.46.x in stable is
not necessarily a simple thing.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/64 also links to other
gjs branches, and branches for gnome-shell and mutter.

> Please backport them to Debian stable.

Stable updates need to minimize the risk of regressions (otherwise
there's no point in having a stable release), so this is unlikely to
happen until we are confident that unstable is fixed.

    smcv