Package: devscripts Version: 2.21.3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
mk-origtargz uses tar --delete to remove files listed in Files-Excluded. However, when there are huge folders with many files in it, then it calls tar --delete a huge amount of times. This is because the size of the tar --delete command cannot contain all files to exclude and then calls it as many times as needed. When working on big archives this can take a very long time. For example I was working on a 600MB archive (compressed) from which I wanted to removed ~2GB of uncompressed data. This should lead to ~ 300MB archive in the end. Since it takes forever with mk-origtargz I finally repacked it with a script that uncompresses the tar, removes the files/folder listed in Files-Excluded, and then creates a new archive. In the documentation of --delete [1] it is already mentioned that "The ‘--delete’ operation can run very slowly" Would it be possible to improve mk-origtargz so that it doesn't use tar --delete but a faster alternative? BTW, this also affects uscan which calls mk-origtargz. [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/delete.html -- Package-specific info: --- /etc/devscripts.conf --- Empty. --- ~/.devscripts --- Not present -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.0 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (991, 'stable-updates'), (991, 'stable'), (95, 'testing'), (90, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr:en_US Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages devscripts depends on: ii dpkg-dev 1.20.9 ii fakeroot 1.25.3-1.1 ii file 1:5.39-3 ii gnupg 2.2.27-2 ii gpgv 2.2.27-2 ii libc6 2.31-13 ii libfile-dirlist-perl 0.05-2 ii libfile-homedir-perl 1.006-1 ii libfile-touch-perl 0.11-1 ii libfile-which-perl 1.23-1 ii libipc-run-perl 20200505.0-1 ii libmoo-perl 2.004004-1 ii libwww-perl 6.52-1 ii patchutils 0.4.2-1 ii perl 5.32.1-4+deb11u1 ii python3 3.9.2-3 ii sensible-utils 0.0.14 ii wdiff 1.2.2-2+b1 Versions of packages devscripts recommends: ii apt 2.2.4 ii curl 7.74.0-1.3+b1 ii dctrl-tools 2.24-3+b1 ii debian-keyring 2021.07.26 ii dput 1.1.0 ii equivs 2.3.1 ii libdistro-info-perl 1.0 ii libdpkg-perl 1.20.9 ii libencode-locale-perl 1.05-1.1 ii libgit-wrapper-perl 0.048-1 ii libgitlab-api-v4-perl 0.26-1 ii liblist-compare-perl 0.55-1 ii liblwp-protocol-https-perl 6.10-1 ii libsoap-lite-perl 1.27-1 ii libstring-shellquote-perl 1.04-1 ii libtry-tiny-perl 0.30-1 ii liburi-perl 5.08-1 ii licensecheck 3.1.1-2 ii lintian 2.104.0 ii man-db 2.9.4-2 ii patch 2.7.6-7 ii pristine-tar 1.49 ii python3-apt 2.2.1 ii python3-debian 0.1.39 ii python3-magic 2:0.4.20-3 ii python3-requests 2.25.1+dfsg-2 ii python3-unidiff 0.5.5-2 ii python3-xdg 0.27-2 ii strace 5.10-1 ii unzip 6.0-26 ii wget 1.21-1+b1 ii xz-utils 5.2.5-2 Versions of packages devscripts suggests: pn adequate <none> pn at <none> ii autopkgtest 5.16 pn bls-standalone <none> ii build-essential 12.9 pn check-all-the-things <none> pn cvs-buildpackage <none> ii debhelper 13.3.4 pn devscripts-el <none> pn diffoscope <none> pn disorderfs <none> pn dose-extra <none> pn duck <none> pn faketime <none> pn gnuplot <none> pn how-can-i-help <none> ii libauthen-sasl-perl 2.1600-1.1 pn libdbd-pg-perl <none> ii libfile-desktopentry-perl 0.22-2 pn libnet-smtps-perl <none> pn libterm-size-perl <none> ii libtimedate-perl 2.3300-2 pn libyaml-syck-perl <none> ii mailutils [mailx] 1:3.10-3+b1 pn mmdebstrap <none> pn mozilla-devscripts <none> pn mutt <none> ii openssh-client [ssh-client] 1:8.4p1-5 pn piuparts <none> ii postgresql-client-13 [postgresql-client] 13.3-1 pn pristine-lfs <none> ii quilt 0.66-2.1 pn ratt <none> pn reprotest <none> pn svn-buildpackage <none> pn w3m <none> -- no debconf information
