[Pkg-gtkpod-devel] python-gpod bug

[Alex Cornejo]

Hi, I believe I found a bug in python-gpod.

It seems that the function "itdb_thumb_get_gdk_pixbuf" is made to
return a "gpointer *", however it should return a gdk.pixbuf object
instance, otherwise there is a memory leak in swig/python.

Each this function is called (when I am debugging python programs from
the console) the following error is printed:

swig/python detected a memory leak of type 'gpointer *', no destructor found.

I believe the bug severity to be medium/serious since for ipods with
large databases (>10,000 songs, which is not uncommon at all) this
leak could potentially result in leaking almost 1GB of memory (each
thumbnail occupies 80k in the ipod, 10,000*80k=800mb).

Regards,

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