Bug#246857: dpkg takes too long installing gnome packages

[Roland Illig <roland.illig@gmx.de>]

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.21
Severity: important

Configuring GNOME packages while installing takes much too long.

   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 28226 root      15   0 22128  21m  768 R 93.6  2.8  14:29 dpkg
  1369 roland    16   0  1044 1040  760 R  7.3  0.1   0:01 top
   
The dpkg(28226) has the only job of configuring a single GNOME package
(I think it was gnome-applets, but others aren't different).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.22-1-k7
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE@euro)

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii  dselect                     1.10.21      a user tool to manage Debian packa
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

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