Package: dpkg Version: 1.15.7 Severity: important The fix for #577756 reintroduced a severe performance degradation first reported in [1]. On my system, unpacking the emacs23-common package with a warm cache takes ~ 40 seconds, about seven times as long as with 1.15.5.6 and 1.15.6.1.
-- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-rc5-nouveau (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii coreutils 8.4-2 GNU core utilities ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in dpkg recommends no packages. Versions of packages dpkg suggests: ii apt 0.7.25.3 Advanced front-end for dpkg -- no debconf information 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2010/03/msg00029.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

