On Sat, 15 Jul 2017 21:23:58 +0100 Ian Jackson <
ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> (resending with right list address)
>
> Maximiliano Curia writes ("stretch-pu: plasma 5.8.7 LTS pre-approval"):
> > The source packages that I would like to update in stretch are:
>
> Thanks. I am not a RM but I am trying to help out by providing review
> comments. I have reviewed this request.
>
> tl;dr: Most of them are very good. Two are questionable:
> plasma-workspace
> plasma-desktop
>
> One caveat for all the packages: they all had big translation updates.
> I ignored these. I assume these are fine for stretch-pu.
>
>
> In each case I have been relying on the accuracy not only of the
> provided debdiff but the provided "packaging" diff and upstream
> git log. I found the latter particularly helpful - thank you!
>
> Overall I would like to say that I am impressed with the associated
> documentation, and what I saw of upstream relase processes. With the
> two exceptions I mention above, I was convinced by the thoroughness of
> the approach upstream. Even when I didn't understand the code
> etc. myself, upstream seemed to be making decisions on the right basis
> and with good review.
>
> > bluedevil/4:5.8.7-1+deb9u1
> > breeze-gtk/5.8.7-1+deb9u1
> > kde-cli-tools/4:5.8.7-1+deb9u1
> > kscreenlocker/5.8.7-1+deb9u1
> > plasma-pa/4:5.8.7-1+deb9u1
> > user-manager/4:5.8.7-1+deb9u1
> > kwin/4:5.8.7-1+deb9u1
> > libksysguard/4:5.8.7-1+deb9u1
> > systemsettings/4:5.8.7-1+deb9u1
>
> These LGTM. I did notice a few things that are IMO not of concern:
>
> The urls
>
>
https://gnuservers.com.ar/~maxy/debian/plasma_5.8.7_stretch-pu/kscreenlocker_5.8.4_5.8.7.upstream.gitlog>
https://gnuservers.com.ar/~maxy/debian/plasma_5.8.7_stretch-pu/systemsettigns_5.8.4_5.8.7.upstream.gitlog>
> referred to in the bug report are 404. The urls are wrong and should
> be
>
>
https://gnuservers.com.ar/~maxy/debian/plasma_5.8.7_stretch-pu/libksysguard_5.8.4_5.8.7.upstream.gitlog>
https://gnuservers.com.ar/~maxy/debian/plasma_5.8.7_stretch-pu/systemsettings_5.8.4_5.8.7.upstream.gitlog>
> Do you generate these requests by hand ?!
>
> Secondly, this in the changelog entry for libksysguard 4:5.8.7-1 is
> rather odd:
> | * Add new patch: Drop-html-markup-from-polkit-action-file.patch.
> | Thanks to Michael Biebl for reporting (Closes: 696905)
> ...
> | * Drop upstream applied patch: Drop-html-markup-from-polkit-action-file.patch
> and it confused me briefly.
>
Hi,
It turns out that the mix of 5.8.6 and 5.8.7 plasma parts leads to some extremely annoying issues, at least for me. The most noticeable are :
- Massive memory leak in ksmserver (bug #881015)
- From time to time the system does not detect my soundcard anymore.
These issues did not appear prior to Debian 9.2 release so I strongly suspect that the mix of 5.8.6 and 5.8.7 libs triggered the issues.
For the latter one I must stress that my GPU is detected as a soundcard as well, which is a normal behaviour. (NVidia GPU w/ 375.82 blob)
Restarting KDE fixes the issues, but for the issue with ksmserver you have to kill ksmserver manually, and then run kill -9 -1 as the component becomes unresponsive when it stats leaking memory.
So could you please make a full transition to 5.8.7 ?
Thanks a lot !