Calling InitSystem() or InitConfig() raises AttributeError

Does anything in Ubuntu still use those interfaces that were deprecated in 2010 and disabled in Debian in 2011? You should not.

To be precise: Those interfaces were deprecated in 0.7.100; and I disabled them in Debian in the 0.8.0 upload.

I'm not sure if anything important in Ubuntu still uses those interfaces. The regression test suite (lp:qa-regression-testing) used by the Ubuntu Security team does, which caused unexpected test failures. I didn't see a mention in the changelog of these interfaces being removed, so thought it would be best to file a bug.

I'll be happy to convert our test suite over to the new interfaces and mark this bug as invalid. It looks like InitSystem() turned into init_system() and InitConfig() turned into init_config(), correct?

Not only InitSystem and InitConfig were replaced. Everything was converted to PEP-8-style names, and all apt_pkg.Get*() were converted to classes. There is a tool at /usr/share/python-apt/migrate-0.8.py that finds problems (It might produce false positives, but should find everything that needs to be ported).

The short porting guide is at:

  http://apt.alioth.debian.org/python-apt-doc/whatsnew/0.7.100.html#porting-your-applications-to-the-new-python-apt-api

and the table of old Get*() functions and the classes that replace them is at:

  http://apt.alioth.debian.org/python-apt-doc/whatsnew/0.7.100.html#real-classes-in-apt-pkg

You can also find this document in a local installation of python-apt-doc.

For the regression test suite, the attached patch should be enough.

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Thanks for the patch, Julian!

I'm marking this bug as invalid since our tools were using deprecated apt_pkg interfaces.