Bug#728274: python-apt: apt.conf used from /etc/apt instead of root_dir + etc/apt

[Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 04:51:58PM +0100, Michael Vogt wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 08:20:38AM +0100, Thomas Bechtold wrote:
[..]
> The attached patch should fix this. Thanks David for the reminder
> about this. Note that init_config() without the clean() is not helpful
> as most of the init config code these days consists of conditional
> sets (i.e. will not override existing ones).

If this works as expected for you I will merge it into python-apt.

> Later Versions of apt have a global Clear(), we should probably use
> that once bindings are added.

Attached is a patch that adds support for the Clear() without a
subtree. The downside is that it needs apt >= 0.9.11 to build. If that
is a concern for backports I could springle in some #ifdefs.

Cheers,
 Michael