Package: python-apt Version: 0.9.3.9 Severity: normal I have had symptoms very similar to http://bugs.debian.org/728274 but in a different context.
I want to use apt_pkg directly and want to call apt_pkg.init() after having set APT_CONFIG to point to my custom configuration. Unfortunately my code also "import apt" (because it needs apt.progress.base.AcquireProgress) and that import unhelpfully triggers apt_pkg.init(). Even though I'm calling that a second time, the configuration is not cleared and while the entries I have defined are overriden, the global entries (such as APT::Target-Release) are there to interfere with my logic. Thus I believe that a call to apt_pkg.init_config() should really clear the apt_pkg.config object first. That's what I did in my code: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/qa/distro-tracker.git/commit/?id=e34d8aaaca11b0706ffa9a773f65442c9c24c987 + # Clean up the configuration we might have read during "import apt" + for root_key in apt_pkg.config.list(): + apt_pkg.config.clear(root_key) + # Load the proper configuration apt_pkg.init() Furthermore it would be nice if the configuration was loaded in a lazy way in all the apt.* modules. That would probably solve #728274. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages python-apt depends on: ii libapt-inst1.5 1.0.7 ii libapt-pkg4.12 1.0.7 ii libc6 2.19-10 ii libgcc1 1:4.9.1-12 ii libstdc++6 4.9.1-12 ii python 2.7.8-1 ii python-apt-common 0.9.3.9 Versions of packages python-apt recommends: ii iso-codes 3.56-1 ii lsb-release 4.1+Debian13 ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2 Versions of packages python-apt suggests: pn python-apt-dbg <none> ii python-apt-doc 0.9.3.9 ii python-gtk2 2.24.0-4 ii python-vte 1:0.28.2-5 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org