merged from debian-sid

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/apt/progress/base.py b/apt/progress/base.py
index 88b1ad21..ab57dd82 100644
--- a/apt/progress/base.py
+++ b/apt/progress/base.py
@@ -142,14 +142,11 @@ class InstallProgress(object):
 
     def __init__(self):
         (self.statusfd, self.writefd) = os.pipe()
+        # These will leak fds, but fixing this safely requires API changes.
         self.write_stream = os.fdopen(self.writefd, "w")
         self.status_stream = os.fdopen(self.statusfd, "r")
         fcntl.fcntl(self.statusfd, fcntl.F_SETFL, os.O_NONBLOCK)
 
-    def __del__(self):
-        self.write_stream.close()
-        self.status_stream.close()
-
     def start_update(self):
         """(Abstract) Start update."""