Bug#859410: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37: Memory pressure relief renders system unusable

[Alessio Gaeta]

Package: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37
Version: 2.14.5-2
Severity: important
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,

I file in Debian also a bug that bites me quite often. The bug has been
acknowledged upstream and already solved.

I'm filing this with severity important, but could also be grave, as it could
cause data loss, due to inability to use system and the need to restart it
forcibly.

Please, seriously consider to cherrypick the solution.

Here the links to upstream bugs:

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164052
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773605

Altough in Gnome Bugzilla the bug refers to Epiphany, in my case it is
triggered by Evoution (which I must keep open all time, due to the lack of
proper email notification in evolution-data-server).

Thanks



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0                             2.22.0-1
ii  libc6                                   2.24-9
ii  libcairo2                               1.14.8-1
ii  libegl1-mesa [libegl1-x11]              13.0.6-1
ii  libenchant1c2a                          1.6.0-11+b1
ii  libfontconfig1                          2.11.0-6.7+b1
ii  libfreetype6                            2.6.3-3+b2
ii  libgcc1                                 1:6.3.0-11
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                      2.36.5-2
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]                13.0.6-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                            2.50.3-2
ii  libgnutls30                             3.5.8-3
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0          1.10.4-1
ii  libgstreamer1.0-0                       1.10.4-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                              3.22.11-1
ii  libharfbuzz-icu0                        1.4.2-1
ii  libharfbuzz0b                           1.4.2-1
ii  libhyphen0                              2.8.8-5
ii  libicu57                                57.1-5
ii  libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18             2.14.5-2
ii  libjpeg62-turbo                         1:1.5.1-2
ii  libnotify4                              0.7.7-1+b1
ii  libpango-1.0-0                          1.40.4-1
ii  libpng16-16                             1.6.28-1
ii  libsecret-1-0                           0.18.5-3.1
ii  libsoup2.4-1                            2.56.0-2
ii  libsqlite3-0                            3.16.2-3
ii  libstdc++6                              6.3.0-11
ii  libwayland-client0                      1.12.0-1
ii  libwayland-egl1-mesa [libwayland-egl1]  13.0.6-1
ii  libwayland-server0                      1.12.0-1
ii  libwebp6                                0.5.2-1
ii  libx11-6                                2:1.6.4-3
ii  libxcomposite1                          1:0.4.4-2
ii  libxdamage1                             1:1.1.4-2+b3
ii  libxml2                                 2.9.4+dfsg1-2.2
ii  libxslt1.1                              1.1.29-2.1
ii  zlib1g                                  1:1.2.8.dfsg-5

Versions of packages libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 recommends:
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-base  1.10.4-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-good  1.10.4-1
ii  libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37-gtk2  2.14.5-2

libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 suggests no packages.