Package: lintian Version: 2.5.9 Severity: normal Hi,
I noticed [1] and decided to check what made Lintian a "lengthy invariant". Processing the changes (and related files) took about a minute (accoriding to the shell built-in time). Running: $ time lintian -d -C manpages allegro4-doc_4.4.2-2_all.deb takes about 40 seconds. The bottleneck appears to our calls to "man" in checks/manpages. Manually running man on all the manpages takes roughly 30 seconds. As far as I can tell, man is "just slow" (at least with currently selected options). Running man in a collection is unlikely to yield any noticable improvement[2]. Even with xargs we are looking at at least 25 seconds plus man is unhelpful in this case[3]. ~Niels [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2012/06/msg00446.html [2] It will still take 30 seconds and the total time we spend in other collections do not even compare to that. [3] It emits errors when running with xargs that do not occur when running them in serial. The error messages all use "<standard input>" rather than a filename, so it will be... difficult to relate them to the original manpage. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
