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Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] Does anybody know the state of Akregator maintenance?
From:       Frank Osterfeld <frank () kdab ! com>
Date:       2010-06-10 21:18:43
Message-ID: 0463A18A-B7E1-44B6-AEB6-C74D81513E90 () kdab ! com
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On Jun 7, 2010, at 10:29 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote:

> 
> Hello!
> 
> Does anybody know the maintenance state of Akregator? Are any aKregator 
> haxx0rz still with KDE development?

I am the maintainer, but I am lacking both time and motivation to work on it. And \
nobody else appeared so far to take over.

> I am asking cause
> 
> Bug 116482 -  metakit: akregator crashes at startup
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116482
> 
> collects duplicates like dust without anyone apparently working on it.
> 
> Actually I cannot reproduce it at all since ages, Akregator just works for 
> me, but AFAIR there have been several mk4-Files posted that should trigger 
> the problem.

The issue is known for a long time, and easy to trigger, by using any corrupted mk4 \
file. The problem is that metakit allocates memory after reading the size of some \
value in the db. If that value is bogus, which means it's some random value, and far \
too high most of the time and the process either starts to allocate huge amounts of \
memory or just crashes (if the value is above the OS limit), or both. The only real \
solution I see is to move away from metakit to Akonadi. That was started (krss) and \
is now lingering in the akonadi-ports branch, but it needs someone with both time and \
motivation (see above) to complete it.

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