[pacman-dev] [PATCH] valgrind.supp: suppress leak in gpgme_get_key

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Mon Jan 6 08:14:04 EST 2014


On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 6:40 AM, Martti Kühne <mysatyre at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 8:43 PM, Andrew Gregory
> <andrew.gregory.8 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Gregory <andrew.gregory.8 at gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  valgrind.supp | 7 +++++++
> >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> >
>
> I don't understand the reasoning behind this.
> How is this not a proper bug which needs to be treated by upstream?
>

This isn't a one-off thing, it is just adding another function to the long
list we already had. See this for the start of things:

commit 1187edb38c5ba42d27fd1de8e97aab658049367f
Author: Dan McGee <dan at archlinux.org>
Date:   Tue Jun 14 10:32:35 2011 -0500

    valgrind.supp: add known leaks from GPGME

    Thank you too, GPGME, for these. Why don't you provide a way to
    clean up your static variable mess?


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