Bug#745487: apt python library leak memory and file descriptors

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Michael Vogt]
> Thanks for this demo, I can reproduce the issue with it. However, if
> I change it a little bit and force the python garbage collector
> there seems to be no leak (or a small memory leak but no fd leak).

Aha.  Calling gc.collect() after I am done using the apt cache in the
isenkramd daemon seem like a reasonable workaround.  I'll use it in
isenkram to avoid having to wait for a fixed python-apt package to
show up in stable. :)

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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen