Bug#839815: python-debian: ArFile keeps a FH open for every package that is accessed

2016-10-05 Thread Stuart Prescott
Hi Marc, Can you provide some sort of test case that helps debug this filehandle leak? I'm not sure how you're using ArFile (other than presumably in some sort of loop). It would help us greatly to see some problematic code. (Even something as simple as the following to a test case print("F

Bug#839815: python-debian: ArFile keeps a FH open for every package that is accessed

2016-10-05 Thread Marc Leeman
Package: python-debian Version: 0.1.29 Severity: normal We wrote a python system to manipulate Debian CDs and resolve dependencies based on local caches. We started out having our ouwn "debianPackage" class, but about 4 months ago, I came across the python-debian code. After reading the documen