Package: gdebi Version: 0.9.5.7xmint8 When I open a large .deb with gdebi, such as a .deb created by building the Linux kernel, gdebi - because it is doing some sort of checking or loading? - does nothing, sometimes for some ten seconds. (This happens even on a quadcore, i7, nvme SSD laptop with 16GM of RAM.) No message is displayed about what is transpiring. Consequently the user has little idea what is happening and wonders whether gdebi has hung. A related problem: on my system at least, the terminal that one can display from gdebi has a non-flashing cursor; hence one cannot visually distinguish a hang from an operation in progress. Still, perhaps that latter problem involves something other than gdebi.
Kernel: 5.0.0 $ ls -l /lib/*/libc.so.6 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Apr 16 2018 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.27.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Apr 16 2018 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.27.so My OS: Linux Mint 19.1 x64 Cinnamon (but this is - in some fundamental sense, anyway - a Debian package, I take it; hence this bug report).
