Bug#643787: apt-cache policy in non-default locale very slow

[Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 08:17:23PM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.8.15.8
> Severity: normal
> 
> If I run apt-cache policy (without arguments), it takes milliseconds.
> If I run it under a different locale, e.g., LC_ALL=C apt-cache policy,
> it takes about 4 or 5 seconds.  There are some package build tools
> that indirectly call apt-cache policy with LC_ALL=C, which makes the
> overall package build very slow.

That's expected, APT needs to rebuild the cache to include/drop
translation indices.

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Julian Andres Klode  - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member

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