[aptitude] - resolving dependencies takes a long time

["KS" <lists04@fastmail.fm>]

Hello all,

I have noticed that aptitude has been behaving differently since after
the squeeze release. I have a debian/unstable box and when I try to do a
safe-upgrade with aptitude, it starts with "Resolving dependencies...."
and uses 100% of one core on my Quad-Core AMD. This goes on for a long
time ~30 to 40min! What has happened? Earlier it used to do it in a
matter of seconds! Below is the text from the terminal when I hit enter
for safe-upgrade (about 25min ago) and it is still continuing.

me@gurh 14:15:14 {test} $> sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
[sudo] password for k2: 
Resolving dependencies...                
open: 18787; closed: 20365; defer: 100; conflict: 54 

Thanks, and congratulations to all who helped Squeeze squeeze through
after 2yrs of Lenny.
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