FS#40893 - [dunst] Memory leak

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Fabien Dubosson (StreakyCobra) - Thursday, 19 June 2014, 12:32 GMT
Last edited by Daniel Wallace (gtmanfred) - Monday, 30 June 2014, 18:01 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Upstream Bugs
Status Closed
Assigned To Daniel Wallace (gtmanfred)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 3
Private No

Details

Description: `dunst` version 1.0.0 has an open issue concerning memory leak.

The bug is known and corrected upstream [1], but no release have been done
since. `dunst` last release was more than one year ago (15 Apr 2013) and they
don't seem to be in a hurry to release a new version. Even more, an open issue
is asking for that since 30 Oct 2013 [2]. The owner said on 08 Nov 2013 that he
will try to push a new release "this weekend" (sic) and the Fedora package
maintainer is also waiting on a new version [2].

This bug has already filled the whole memory of my computer twice, freezing it
and forcing me to hard reboot. This is quite annoying for a package in official
repository, especially when used out-of-the-box without any additional
configuration.

For all these reasons I propose to apply the patches [1] and [3] (both add only
1 line) on the archlinux side until a new version is released. Maybe also taking
into account an older archlinux closed bug [4] that is awaiting for a new
hypothetic `dunst` release can be a good idea.

[1] https://github.com/knopwob/dunst/pull/175 (dbus: Fix iterator memory leak #175)
[2] https://github.com/knopwob/dunst/issues/130 (Tag a 1.0.1 release? #130)
[3] https://github.com/knopwob/dunst/commit/9e03b5258fb2e8afe95f3bf32e911dbedb63e765 (fix memory leak in string_to_argv)
[4] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/39745 (1.0.0 shortcuts interfer with NumLock)

This task depends upon

Closed by  Daniel Wallace (gtmanfred)
Monday, 30 June 2014, 18:01 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Additional comments about closing:  https://github.com/knopwob/dunst/issues/ 130

waiting on a new release still
Comment by Samim (psamim) - Friday, 20 June 2014, 11:32 GMT
Had to remove Dunst from Offical repo and install it via AUR.

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