#982641 enchant: Memory leak in aspell provider

Package:
enchant-2
Source:
enchant-2
Description:
Wrapper for various spell checker engines (binary programs)
Submitter:
Colomban Wendling
Date:
2026-02-13 21:59:02 UTC
Severity:
minor
Tags:
#982641#5
Date:
2013-03-28 00:41:51 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

The aspell provider suffers from a leak in the list_dicts() method.
Although this isn't a huge issue, it may be problematic to applications
calling this method several times.  Also, it is annoying when trying to
catch leaks in an application using libenchant (especially because the
leak hapens in a dynamically loaded module which makes it harder to
track with Valgrind).

This bug has been reported to upstream almost 3 years ago, with a
patch: http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12811
They didn't give any follow up yet, so I'm wondering whether Debian
couldn't add a patch to it's package so at least its users wouldn't
suffer from the issue in the time upstream fixes it on their side.

The patch is a trivial oneliner, so I think it shouldn't be too hard to
review it.

Regards,
Colomban

#982641#12
Date:
2021-02-01 21:29:21 UTC
From:
To:
Dear submitter,

as the package enchant has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/969473

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.

Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.

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Joerg Jaspert (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)

#982641#29
Date:
2026-02-13 21:58:04 UTC
From:
To:
This bug was fixed by upstream release 2.7.0; later versions are now
packaged in Debian.