On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 16:44:30 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> [2008.04.12.2003 +0200]: > > Seems this behaviour was there but reverted long time ago in commit > > f48836f8589e17fabed7bddcc402422b394e1820, which at the same time > > introduced the --forget-old-unavail option. I don't see much point in > > that change, something which can be done automatically is relegated to > > manual intervention by the user (or the need for frontends to use that > > option). I think I'll revert the part related to forget-old-unavail > > and reintroduce the automatic removal of purged entries from status. > > Probably not now with dpkg being frozen, though. > > What's the status of this. I found that running > > grep-status -! -FStatus 'purge ok not-installed' \ > | sudo sponge /var/lib/dpkg/status
This will not be needed either with the next upload, dpkg will cleanup the database from old cruft automatically. > on older systems speeds up dpkg *a lot*. Can we make this default > (or is it already)? Ah right, I knew there was a bug for this when I fixed it in git, but could not find it. Thanks! Will add now the bug closure. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
