On Friday 25 December 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > I'm seeing the same issue in an amd64/sid pbuilder environment when > mandb gets installed as one of the build dependencies of > cdebconf-entropy.
To show the severity of the issue, this is from my sparc box during a regular upgrade (last one was 2 months ago): 9630 man 20 0 5448 1960 680 R 98.8 0.2 54:11.05 mandb And no idea how much longer it's going to take. One problem is that there is absolutely no indication man-db is doing anything special. It just shows: Processing triggers for man-db ... Users are very likely to conclude something is in an endless loop. And even if it did show some king of progress, processes that take so much time IMO shouldn't be done from maintainer scripts. An upgrade should be completed within a reasonable time to avoid the risk of leaving random services of unrelated packages stopped for so long. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
