Would it be possible to patch this bug in Debian, unless there is a clear indication that there is going to be a new upstream release in near future?
Right now wget is unusable for mirroring sites or retrieving many files over https because it hogs memory until the kernel OOM killer kills it. The upstream fix is available here: http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/wget/trunk/revision/2572#src/gnutls.c The upstream diff is available directly from here: http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/wget/trunk/diff/2572 To help others having this problem, there is a workaround: Add options "--ca-directory=/noexist --no-check-certificate" to the wget command line. This does not resolve the memory leak completely but it makes it much smaller. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
