Bug#497049: wrong GetCache() call causes memory corruption

[Marcin Owsiany <porridge@debian.org>]

Package: python-apt
Version: 0.7.3.1

| mowsiany@beczulka:~$ cat bug.py 
| #!/usr/bin/python
| import apt_pkg
| import re
| apt_pkg.InitConfig()
| apt_pkg.InitSystem()
| apt_cache = apt_pkg.GetCache()
| apt_depcache = apt_pkg.GetCache(apt_cache)
| re.compile('a')
| 
| mowsiany@beczulka:~$ ./bug.py 
| Reading package lists... Done
| Building dependency tree       
| Reading state information... Done
| Traceback (most recent call last):
|   File "./bug.py", line 8, in <module>
|     re.compile('a')
|   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/re.py", line 180, in compile
|     return _compile(pattern, flags)
|   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/re.py", line 231, in _compile
|     p = sre_compile.compile(pattern, flags)
|   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/sre_compile.py", line 505, in compile
|     import sre_parse
| AttributeError: done
| mowsiany@beczulka:~$

This was pretty puzzling for me until I noticed that the penultimate line in
the script is wrong. It should have been 

| apt_depcache = apt_pkg.GetDepCache(apt_cache)

And everything works if it's corrected.

However the memory corruption is probably still something that should be fixed?

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