** Description changed:

+ [ Impact ]
+ 
+ All the usual issues of memory leaks for long running processes, up to
+ and including system sluggishness and eventually crashes.
+ 
+ [ Test Plan ]
+ 
+ * Using an affected application, e.g. mission-center installed via flat-pak, 
leave application running for 24 hours and check memory usage
+ * Enable proposed (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed)
+ * sudo apt install -t noble-proposed xdg-dbus-proxy
+ * sudo reboot
+ * Run affected application for the same length of time (e.g. 24 hours), 
observe significantly lower memory usage
+ 
+ [ Regression Potential ]
+ 
+ Relatively low. The patch itself is minimal, and is now incorporated in
+ an upstream (https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-dbus-proxy/pull/58), which
+ is present in oracular. Please note only the first patch from that PR is
+ included; the second patch is rather more involved, and it's not clear
+ that we need it to resolve the issue.
+ 
+ That said, xdg-dbus-proxy is used by plenty of applications, and it's
+ very tricky to diagnose whether a memory leak is *actually* fixed,
+ particularly when not all applications display it, the leak can take a
+ long time to become particularly noticeable, or the leak is affected by
+ differing patterns of usage. To guard against this, the test plan
+ targets an application known to be affected, and requests a particularly
+ long runtime to make the leak more obvious to detect.
+ 
+ [ Original Description ]
+ 
  Reported via IRC and comments on mission-center's GitLab [1]: for users
  of flatpak installs, xdg-dbus-proxy is leaking memory (causing
  particular issues for long running processes).
  
  The root cause appears to be leaked GVariant references, ultimately
  fixed in 0.1.6 [2] now available in oracular. However, this still
  affects the release version on noble, and is likely suitable for SRU.
  Patch to be prepared...
  
  [1]: 
https://gitlab.com/mission-center-devs/mission-center/-/issues/61#note_1584564638
  [2]: 
https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-dbus-proxy/issues/51#issuecomment-2020464257

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