Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.10 Severity: wishlist Hi,
In light of <[email protected]>, I would like to request dpkg -f and dpkg-deb -f would work without writing a temporary file to the disk. Currently, Lintian uses its own "ar | tar"-pipeline because "dpkg-deb -f $file is very slow"[1]. The comment does not specify what causes the slowness. As far as simple benchmarks have shown me, there seem to be no real difference between dpkg-deb -f and "ar | tar" performance-wise (with /tmp being tmpfs). So I guess that the only (remaining?) problem is the extraction to disk. ~Niels [1] An inline comment from Lintian::Util (see get_deb_info) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
