Package: devscripts
Version: 2.9.26
Severity: normal

dd-list on for instance the packages of etch's first CD takes well over
a minute when it could be done in seconds.  Please make use of this
proof-of-concept speedup:

Cheers,
Peter
#!/usr/bin/perl

# Copyright (c) 2007 Peter Palfrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
#
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use English;
use strict;
use warnings;

$INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR = "";
my %packages;

open (F, "apt-cache dumpavail |") or die ("Cannot open apt-cache dumpavail 
pipe: $!\n");
while (<F>) {
        my ($p) = /^Package: (.*)/m;
        my ($m) = /^Maintainer: (.*)/m;
        $packages{$p} = $m;
};
close F;

$INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR = "\n";
my %maintainers;
while (<>) {
        chomp;
        my $m = $packages{$_};
        $m = 'unknown' unless $m;
        $maintainers{$m} = [] unless $maintainers{$m};
        push @{$maintainers{$m}}, $_;
};

for my $m (keys %maintainers) {
        print "$m\n";
        for my $p (@{$maintainers{$m}}) {
                print "\t$p\n";
        };
};

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