Hello Andreas et al.

Building this package allocates 188 GB of memory.

To see how this could be a problem, take a machine with a lot of
memory, say, 64 GB of RAM, which btw is more than three times the
amount required to build any other Debian package, and disable memory
overcommiting by creating /etc/sysctl.d/10-no-overcommit.conf with
this contents:

vm.overcommit_ratio = 100
vm.overcommit_memory = 2

Then write "sysctl --system" to load those values.

Then try to build this package in such machine, and it will fail.

It is normally assumed that applications overcommit as a normal
thing, but this package builds fine in a machine having as little
as 1 GB of RAM, so the overcommit ratio is about 188:1.

Maybe this package does actually require such high amount of memory to
work, but as far as building is concerned, every other Debian package
which I know (well, except gpgme which requires 230 GB, the only other anomaly
I found) could be built with only 20 GB of RAM, so this package is
really an outlier.

Thanks.

Hi,

I've forwarded the issue upstream:

https://github.com/amplab/snap/issues/82

Kind regards

     Andreas.

Hello,

Bug #848589 in snap-aligner reported by you has been fixed in the
Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit
message below and you can check the diff of the fix at:

https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/snap-aligner/-/commit/4673d2fec96d0113f1dea1418cab665c54a64d2e

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Greetings

https://bugs.debian.org/848589

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
snap-aligner, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 848589@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> (supplier of updated snap-aligner package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2026 21:25:00 +0200
Source: snap-aligner
Architecture: source
Version: 2.0.5+dfsg-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Med Packaging Team <debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org>
Closes: 848589
Changes:
 snap-aligner (2.0.5+dfsg-2) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Team upload.
   * Detach threads created in StartNewThread to stop leaking thread stacks.
     Closes: #848589.
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