Re: [Gtkpod-devel] bug

[Todd Z. <tm...@po...>]

Hi Alex,

Alex Cornejo wrote:
> Hi, I believe I found a bug in python-gpod.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> Each this function is called (when I am debugging python programs
> from the console) the following error is printed:
>=20
> swig/python detected a memory leak of type 'gpointer *', no
> destructor found.

This might need another helper function.  There is sw_save_itdb_thumb,
which is meant to save a thumbnail to a file.  I don't know if it's
possible to coerce itdb_thumb_get_gdk_pixbuf to return a gdb.pixbuf
object from swig or not (but I'm not very knowledgeable about the
low-level swig stuff).

This is probably partly due to the fact that in the main library,
itdb_thumb_get_gdk_pixbuf returns a gpointer which needs to be
manually cast to a gdk pixbuf so that the dependence on gdk pixbuf can
remain optional. :-/

> PS: I dont know where to submit this bug report, I sent it to the
> python-gpod package mantainers, and they requested to submit a
> formal bug report, however I dont know if I should simply post a bug
> report on ubuntu's launchpad (I am using ubuntu, but this bug is not
> ubuntu specific).

Here or the SF tracker for the gtkpod project would be good.  Of
course, if the folks at Ubuntu want to help out with a patch, that'd
be great. :)

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