[issue12167] test_packaging reference leak

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> I’m afraid I don’t understand enough to fix this.  I looked at
> test_simple_built in test_command_bdist_dumb and found no C code
> involved.

It means that either packaging or test_packaging keeps references to
more and more objects.
You don't need to know C, but you have to investigate.

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