Bug#865537: stretch-pu: plasma 5.8.7 LTS pre-approval

[Julien Aubin <jul.aubin@laposte.net>]

2017-11-30 7:08 GMT+01:00 Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>:

On Thu, 2017-11-30 at 06:29 +0100, Julien Aubin wrote:
> 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. 

There were no 5.8.7 packages included in 9.2 so far as I can see. Which
related packages do you believe were updated?

Regards,

Adam

Okay my bad. In that case the mem leak must be related to some other component, cannot isolate it. My findings in the dedicated bug report about ksmserver. This bug seems anyway hard to debug, and maybe 5.8.7 contains a fix for this.