Debian Bug report logs - #760549
python-apt: apt_pkg.init_config() should apt_pkg.config.clean()

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Package: python-apt; Maintainer for python-apt is APT Development Team <[email protected]>; Source for python-apt is src:python-apt (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Raphaël Hertzog <[email protected]>

Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2014 07:57:07 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

Found in version python-apt/0.9.3.9

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Subject: Re: Bug#760549: python-apt: apt_pkg.init_config() should apt_pkg.config.clean()
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On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 10:21 AM, Julian Andres Klode <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 09:56:26AM +0200, Raphaël Hertzog wrote:
>> Furthermore it would be nice if the configuration was loaded in a lazy
>> way in all the apt.* modules. That would probably solve #728274.
>
> It would not, AFAICT. The thing with #728274 is that is a use case that
> directly conflicts with another use case. One group of users like in the
> bug report want to specify configuration files in the chroot, and others
> are setting them outside the chroot (especially APT::Architecture for
> foreign chroots).

Sorry, yes it actually would solve it in case you only create a single
Cache(). Unfortunately, our configuration is a global thing, and thus
the entries from the different root directory would remain even after
the cache was closed; for example, when creating a new one.

It might make sense to provide the ability to switch apt_pkg.config
between different Configuration instances (setting _config on the C++
level), but I'm not sure if that would provide a consistent behaviour.

In short, global state sucks a lot, and there's not much we can do to fix it.
-- 
Julian Andres Klode  - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member

See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.

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