On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 04:10:06PM +0100, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> Was it left out for some particular reason?
>
> I have quite a lot of memory so this is not critical for me in any way
> (but thanks for taking care of this). But I imagine that many of the
> users of newsbeuter can be annoyed by that, so I am curious why this
> memory problem has been going on for so long.
As mentioned above, many users are running newsbeuter in hosts with limited
memory and a 1/2GB memory footprint for a text based RSS reader is simply
ridiculous and since there are no other important bugs open I am releasing a
revision with the patch immediately(its also is a nice excuse to migrate the
package to debhelper :) )
As for why it has been going on for that long, the leak was first observed right
after the release of 2.8 for which a patch was released but was not added to
debian since the previous maintainer was busy, in 2.9 the issue re-appeared for
some reason(either its a new memory leak or a regression of the old one), a
patch was released right after that and unfortunately I didn't notice it before
uploading the new version.
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Best Regards,
Nikos Tsipinakis
