Bug#151489: python-apt: pkgCache objects never get freed

["Manuel Estrada Sainz" <ranty@debian.org>]

Package: python-apt
Version: 0.5.4.3
Severity: normal

 The following code gives you an ever growing python process:

  import apt_pkg
  
  apt_pkg.InitConfig()
  apt_pkg.InitSystem()
  while 1:
      cache = apt_pkg.GetCache()


 I am not sure if it is python-apt's or libapt's problem, and since
 usually you only load the cache once before quiting it is generaly not
 a big problem.

 I am rewritting apt-proxy and using python-apt is very handy, but since
 apt-proxy is a daemon the above is really a problem.

 My first guess was that since it uses CppOwnedDealloc<pkgCache *> to
 deallocate the object, it just deallocates de pointer to the object and
 not the object itself. But putting this on its place didn't fix it:

	 static void CppOwnedDealloc_pkgCache(PyObject *iObj)
	 {
	    pkgCache *Cache = GetCpp<pkgCache *>(iObj);
	    delete Cache;
	    CppOwnedDealloc<pkgCache *>(iObj);
	 }

 I am willing to fix it myself, but I would at least need some pointers
 from more knowledgeable people.

 Thank for a great job

	ranty


-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux hell 2.4.18-ac3 #4 Fri Apr 26 11:17:02 CEST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=es_ES

Versions of packages python-apt depends on:
ii  apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2-3 0.5.4      Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  apt-utils [libapt-inst-libc6. 0.5.4      APT utility programs
ii  libc6                         2.2.5-7    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  python                        2.1.3-3    An interactive object-oriented scr

-- no debconf information



-- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deity-request@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org