Bug#677874: lintian: checks/manpages is unreasonably slow on some packages

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On 2012-06-17 14:15, Niels Thykier wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.5.9
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed [1] and decided to check what made Lintian a "lengthy
> invariant".  Processing the changes (and related files) took about a
> minute (accoriding to the shell built-in time).  Running:
> 
>  $ time lintian -d -C manpages allegro4-doc_4.4.2-2_all.deb
> 
> takes about 40 seconds.
> 
> [...]
> 
> 
> 

I had a talk with Colin today at UDS and we came to the conclusion that
there is nothing further to be done on the Lintian side (in 2.5.11).
Colin is already working on some improvements on the man-db/libpipeline
side.

I will mark this as (being) fixed in 2.5.11.

~Niels