> > The speed increase will be nice and it might make it easier to > incorporate future changes. Lintian is an important tool for ensuring > that Debian is of upmost quality and high standards. > Lintian's current design means it forks a new process (usually perl, sometimes shell) for damn near every action. This is guaranteed to be slow. Another problem (which I hope Steve addressed) is that lintian reparses the same data over and over and over ......