On 18th July, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > In 0.5.5, there are configurable limits for the length of the dpkg command > line, and the default was increased from 1024 bytes to 8192 bytes, so this > should not be a significant problem anymore. Downgrading and merging with > the old wishlist bug about the same issue.
and merged 22550 with 172339 and 190558. But I think 22550 is about something different. 172339+190558 are about apt wrongly chopping things into chunks to feed to dpkg, causing genuine problems when dependency cycles are involved. 22550 is about apt feeding too many things to dpkg at once, so dpkg unpacks them all at once and they're in a nonfunctional state for a long time before it gets round to configuring them. This isn't a bug as such, it's just a wishlist item that you should be able to get apt to split things up (paying attention to cycles, of course) so as to reduce downtime for services. Could you put the bug back the way it was, please? (seperate and wishlist). On the other hand, it looks like it could be merged with 143537. -- PMM
