The deb contains a 3.5GB file. The python-apt code reads the file into
memory into a C++ array and then creates a PyBytes object from it,
copying the data,  causing 7GB of memory usage.

** Changed in: python-apt (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

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