Re: Releasing G-I with RC1 - one RC issue remaining

[Attilio Fiandrotti <attilio.fiandrotti@gmail.com>]

Loïc Minier wrote:
>         Hi,
>
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2006, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
>
> > Anyway, yesterday i eventually found the root of the "boom" bug [1] 
> > (it's in GTK or GLib) and, while waiting for someone to fix it, the 
> > below patch seems to workaround this issue in most cases.
> > Loic, do you feel to try building a patched GTK 2.10.4 udeb so that 
> > frans can test if the "boom" bug is fixed?
>
>
>  I couldn't reproduce the double free under valgrind and the X11
>  backend.  I currently patch the source tree only one time, and I only
>  have one source tree (I just got rid of the tar-in-tar orig.tar.gz), so
>  I can't apply your patch to the directfb build only.  Since your patch
>  adds a mem leak, I don't want to include it right now.

Yes, it leaks but this was just an idea to see if a boom-less udeb can 
be built with this quick workaround, i agree a real fix is needed.

>  I'm willing to try to fix the underlying bug though, or else I will try
>  to change the patch to only be effective when building the DFB flavor.

ok, see my reply in gnome's bts.

ciao

Attilio