Bug#971895: lintian: hangs indefinitely on stable using lintian 2.97.0~bpo10+1
Hi Baptiste,
On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 2:03 AM Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com> wrote:
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> Untarring is an expensive operation, and the two indices would
> otherwise require two such operations in addition to the actual
> unpacking.
Upon re-reading, my wording was perhaps a bit unclear. Here, 'index'
refers to 'tar t'. or the index output by tar. We collect both named
and numerical owners, which require two separate runs.
> In your case, the index of 'installed' files seems to be the issue.
This index is the full in-memory replication of the file list
(including checksums and, sometimes, cached content). It is based on
Lintian::Index, which is how checks examine files installed in *.deb
packages.
Lintian provides four indices total: installed, control, patched and
orig. Their features are identical.
Kind regards
Felix Lechner
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