596786 – net-im/skypeforlinux-1.10.0.1 version bump

Bug 596786 - net-im/skypeforlinux-1.10.0.1 version bump

Summary: net-im/skypeforlinux-1.10.0.1 version bump

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Raymond Jennings

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Reported:	2016-10-10 17:37 UTC by Sven
Modified:	2016-10-14 13:46 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Sven 2016-10-10 17:37:54 UTC

please bump to 1.10.0.2

Comment 1 Sven 2016-10-10 17:40:16 UTC

sorry, version is actually 1.10.0.1

Comment 2 Raymond Jennings 2016-10-11 13:29:39 UTC

Waiting on the PTB to do the PR on github

Comment 3 Sergey Ilinykh 2016-10-12 07:11:38 UTC

I'm not quite sure but it seems when this new version is started, X eats really a lot of memory. last time I noticed 8G for X process.

I'll update this task when figured out if the problem is really in this skype version.

Comment 4 Raymond Jennings 2016-10-12 07:58:53 UTC

(In reply to Rion from comment #3)
> I'm not quite sure but it seems when this new version is started, X eats
> really a lot of memory. last time I noticed 8G for X process.
> 
> I'll update this task when figured out if the problem is really in this
> skype version.

Thanks for noticing.

However you should file a separate bug as this one is reserved for the version bump.

Comment 5 Raymond Jennings 2016-10-12 10:44:13 UTC

new version is in portage tree.

Not bothering with stablereq becuase even upstream calls it alpha.

Comment 6 Sergey Ilinykh 2016-10-14 12:30:58 UTC

It seems my memory problem was not in skype.
At least if it's just started and no calls/chats, I don't see any leak anymore.

But Skype itself takes ~720M ram. But that's Ok. It's alpha and Microsoft knows exactly how to worsen their products.

Comment 7 Raymond Jennings 2016-10-14 12:41:46 UTC

Skype worked fine until microsoft got its grubby paws on it.

They completely butt-raped the architecture and turned it into a centralized snoop-box.

Comment 8 Michał Górny archtester

2016-10-14 13:09:51 UTC

Just to be clear, Skype never worked. I recall the time when I had to run it with ulimit because on 4 out of 5 attempts of starting it, it just ate all my RAMs, caused massive hang and then got OOM-killed. With reasonable ulimit however, it just quickly died 4 times, and started correctly at the 5th attempt or so.

Also, it could be worse. It could be Orible who took it. See how they broke Java, Solaris...

Comment 9 Raymond Jennings 2016-10-14 13:46:32 UTC

(In reply to Michał Górny from comment #8)
> Just to be clear, Skype never worked. I recall the time when I had to run it
> with ulimit because on 4 out of 5 attempts of starting it, it just ate all
> my RAMs, caused massive hang and then got OOM-killed. With reasonable ulimit
> however, it just quickly died 4 times, and started correctly at the 5th
> attempt or so.
> 
> Also, it could be worse. It could be Orible who took it. See how they broke
> Java, Solaris...

RESOLVED UPSTREAM

And like I told the other guy, memory issues should be reported on a separate bug.

For the record though I've personally never had any trouble with skype until microsoft ruined it.  No wonder telegram is so popular.