[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#766762: [Intent to NMU] Re: Bug#766762: upower: fatal memory leak on low battery

[Michael Banck]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 02:21:25PM +0100, intrigeri wrote:
> intrigeri wrote (25 Nov 2014 20:01:39 GMT) :
> > for the record, new patches have been posted on the upstream bug
> > tracker. They work fine for me. I've just pinged upstream to know if
> > we have a chance to see these patches merged there by the end of the
> > month. If this doesn't happen, I'd like to NMU with these patches, and
> > ask for an unblock.
> 
> The patch that I've been testing for a few days, and that fixes this
> bug for me, has now been merged upstream (commit 4221835fa).
> 
> They plan to put a new bugfix release out soonish, that plugs a few
> other memory leaks and fixes some more bugs, but the total amount of
> changes in their master branch (compared to the UPOWER_0_99_1 tag)
> makes me wary to request an unblock for the whole thing:
> 
>  27 files changed, 373 insertions(+), 104 deletions(-)
> 
> as opposed to just commit 4221835fa:
> 
>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> So, I'd like to NMU with upstream commit 4221835fa cherry-picked.
> Any objection? Anyone who would rather take the other fixes too?

I think this bug is severe enough that it should be fixed now, and as
soon as it is accepted in testing, the rest of the upstream point
release could be submitted for inclusion, if time still permits.


Michael