Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.15.8.10 Severity: wishlist Hi,
I have a 90 mb source tarball, which is 528 mb unpacked. Running dpkg-buildpackage -S on it takes ages (657 seconds, to be exact) on my notebook, as it checks whether there are changes in the original source to put into debian/patches/debian-changes-foo, even though I made sure there are no such changes. Indeed, in most subversion-based work-flows, there are only supposed to be changes under debian/ and changes from diffing the source are usually bugs, not features. So an option which tells dpkg-source to skip diffing the original source against the current soure tree would reduce time to build the source package tremendously and avoid unwanted errors due to debian/patches/debian-changes*. Would you accept patches for this or even want to implement this yourself? Cheers, Michael PS: Just tarring up debian/ takes 0.022 seconds for the above example, a speedup by a factor of roughly 30000. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) 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-dev depends on: ii base-files 6.0 Debian base system miscellaneous f ii binutils 2.20.1-16 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii bzip2 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libdpkg-perl 1.15.8.10 Dpkg perl modules ii make 3.81-8 An utility for Directing compilati ii patch 2.6-2 Apply a diff file to an original ii xz-utils 5.0.0-2 XZ-format compression utilities Versions of packages dpkg-dev recommends: ii build-essential 11.5 Informational list of build-essent ii fakeroot 1.14.4-1 Gives a fake root environment ii gcc [c-compiler] 4:4.4.5-1 The GNU C compiler ii gcc-4.3 [c-compiler] 4.3.5-4 The GNU C compiler ii gcc-4.4 [c-compiler] 4.4.5-8 The GNU C compiler ii gnupg 1.4.10-4 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep ii gpgv 1.4.10-4 GNU privacy guard - signature veri ii libalgorithm-merge-perl 0.08-2 Perl module for three-way merge of Versions of packages dpkg-dev suggests: pn debian-keyring <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
