Bug#960636: deb-why-removed is very slow

Package: devscripts Version: 2.20.3 Followup-For: Bug #960636 In addition to the speed of parsing the file, it could download less data by using the per-year indexes. Also getting compressed indexes on ftp-master would be good. Adding a removals API to dak would be best. $ rm -rf

Bug#960636: deb-why-removed is very slow

Package: devscripts Version: 2.20.3 deb-why-removed is very slow. On my machine it takes nearly half a minute to query for one package: $ time deb-why-removed --no-refresh didjvu Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 22:24:20 + Ftpmaster: Scott Kitterman Suite: unstable Sources: