I'm not maintaining wmbattery anymore. I've cced Doug, its new
maintainer.

Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Apr 2016 17:04:51 -0400
> Kei Yamashita <kei@openmailbox.org> wrote:
> 
> > The source tarball comes from Debian. 
> 
> The wmbattery version <http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/w/wmbattery/wmbattery_2.50.orig.tar.gz> that we use in Guix has a memory leak. It's been eating up all memory of my laptop for some time now, so I tracked it down.
> 
> The fix would be:
> 
> diff -ur orig/dockapps-30b9edb/upower.c dockapps-30b9edb/upower.c
> --- orig/dockapps-30b9edb/upower.c	2015-08-31 01:58:13.000000000 +0200
> +++ dockapps-30b9edb/upower.c	2016-05-12 07:21:27.550374114 +0200
> @@ -56,7 +56,8 @@
>  
>  int upower_supported(void)
>  {
> -	up = up_client_new();
> +	if (!up)
> +		up = up_client_new();
>  
>  	if (!up) {
>  		return 0;
> @@ -78,7 +79,8 @@
>  	GPtrArray *devices = NULL;
>  	static int retries = 0;
>  
> -	up = up_client_new();
> +	if (!up)
> +		up = up_client_new();
>  
>  	if (!up)
>  		return -1;
> 
> I added Joey Hess, the author of the program, to Cc.
> 
> @Joey Hess: what do you think?

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