Hi, conkeror is a xulrunner based web browser which means that it's started as "xulrunner /usr/share/conkeror/application.ini". In the Debian package this is done inside a wrapper script at /usr/bin/conkeror.
The wrapper script before conkeror 0.9~git080629-2 catched all conkeror output to change a few things in xulrunner's --help message (e.g. the binary path and some options not applying to conkeror). This had some unexpected side effects, because it also consumed all conkeror output during normal usage, too, and accumulated it in memory until conkeror exits: + It catched all debug messages from the configuration or extensions and printed them only after exiting which makes debugging of extensions impossible. (Details in http://bugs.debian.org/498515) + All output of conkeror is stored in a shell variable before it is parsed and printed out again. This can lead to high and unwanted memory consumption of the wrapper script in case of long browser uptimes and unexpected (and unseen) output, e.g. debug output from some extension. + Four levels of processes (wrapper script and three levels of xulrunner processes) were running when conkeror was running. The solution[1] is simple and much safer: The wrapper script in 0.9~git080629-2 checks if the first parameter is --help and if so calls xulrunner as before, and otherwise (normal usage) it "exec"s xulrunner directly which reduces not only the memory usage but also the number of processes running during usage to what is necessary by xulrunner (usually three). So the cases where the "cosmetic feature" described above gets called have been reduced to the minimum. [1] http://noone.org/hg/conkeror/debian/rev/a8c690eb65bd The conkeror users (including me) would be happy if the fixed version 0.9~git080629-2 is allowed to enter Debian Lenny. Thanks in advance, Axel -- Axel Beckert - [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://noone.org/abe/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
