Re: Bug#487722: 487722: dhelp still getting hung up
On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 23:04 +0200, Esteban Manchado Velázquez wrote:
> Cc'ing debian-release, seeking advice...
It would be very interesting to hear what they have to say, and whether
testing has turned up this problem.
>
> Intro for debian-release: this bug makes dhelp wait for potentially
> *hours* when upgrading (many packages). That means that if someone upgrades
> from Etch to Lenny, they will have to wait for a couple of hours for the dhelp
> postinst, while it's asking index++ to reindex all documents for all installed
> packages.
I'm not sure how widespread the problem will be. For example, I have a
lot of linux documentation and standards files installed; maybe people
without that will not have long to wait.
I just did another upgrade (within testing) that took about 2 hours
because of this problem.
Ross
>
> This will happen to virtually everyone having dhelp installed if they
> dist-upgrade to Lenny. Or anyone doing any reasonably big upgrade for that
> matter.
>
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