[Pkg-gtkpod-devel] Bug#425583: Memory leak in python-gpod [was: python-gpod bug]

[Frank Lichtenheld]

Package: python-gpod
Version: 0.4.2-2
Severity: important
Submitter: Alex Cornejo <acornejo at gmail.com>

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 02:31:36AM -0500, Alex Cornejo wrote:
> Hi, I believe I found a bug in python-gpod.

Please report it as a bug then instead of emailing the maintainer
directly. This way the chance of your report getting overlooked
or lost is way smaller. Doing so now for you.

> 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).

I have no knowledge of the workings of python bindings. Will forward
your report to upstream, though.

Gruesse,
-- 
Frank Lichtenheld <djpig at debian.org>
www: http://www.djpig.de/