** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #731501
   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=731501

** Also affects: pygobject via
   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=731501
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1728461

Title:
  Python GC destroys PyGObject with external references

Status in pygobject:
  Unknown
Status in pygobject package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  PyGObject traverses its closures in tp_traverse, but the lifetime of the 
closures
  is tied to the lifetime of the GObject and not the wrapper. This confuses
  the Python GC when it sees a ref cycle and tries to break it up with tp_clear.
  Since tp_clear will not invalidate the closure and only invalidate the Python
  wrapper the closure callback gets called with the now cleared/invalid object.

  This bug make python gtk programs to segfault randomly.

  Patch available here:
  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=731501

  Should apply to 3.24 or be easily backported: one line patch adding a
  if statement.

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