Bug#868767: Please backport upstream patch 8.0.0698

[James McCoy]

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 12:32:26PM +0100, Malcolm Rowe wrote:
> Upstream's patch 8.0.0698 fixes a crash on exit when using Python
> functions within a timer. Recent versions of e.g. YouCompleteMe
> (http://valloric.github.io/YouCompleteMe/) appear to trigger this
> reliably, so it would be nice to backport the fix to Debian itself (it
> applies cleanly to what's already in the tree).

Upstream patches get merged periodically.  However, I haven't been able
to make an upload of them because they fail to build on Debian's
infrastructure.  It's something I've been trying to narrow down so I can
send Bram a minimally reproducible example.

Cheers,
-- 
James
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