On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 23:04 +0200, Esteban Manchado Velázquez wrote: > Cc'ing debian-release, seeking advice... It would be very interesting to hear what they have to say, and whether testing has turned up this problem. > > Intro for debian-release: this bug makes dhelp wait for potentially > *hours* when upgrading (many packages). That means that if someone upgrades > from Etch to Lenny, they will have to wait for a couple of hours for the dhelp > postinst, while it's asking index++ to reindex all documents for all installed > packages. I'm not sure how widespread the problem will be. For example, I have a lot of linux documentation and standards files installed; maybe people without that will not have long to wait.
I just did another upgrade (within testing) that took about 2 hours because of this problem. Ross > > This will happen to virtually everyone having dhelp installed if they > dist-upgrade to Lenny. Or anyone doing any reasonably big upgrade for that > matter. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]