It looks like this did get merged back in 2014 but there no changelog references to this bug number.
https://github.com/Debian/apt/commit/308b6fc991d2b65a0bf410fb968f1c7b81b4a83b ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1013583 Title: contents-generation could be 2x faster by not regenerating Packages/Sources Status in Launchpad itself: Triaged Status in apt package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in apt package in Debian: Unknown Bug description: 10:25 <cjwatson> Why does contents-generation generate its own dists/ rather than copying the most recent published version, anyway? I get why it has a separate dists/, but I don't really see why it has to go to the effort of generating its own. 10:28 <cjwatson> Oh, maybe it's just hard to get apt-ftparchive not to do so. 10:29 <wgrant> Because I hate apt-ftparchive. 10:30 <wgrant> But yeah, it's probably difficult to tell it otherwise. 10:31 <wgrant> Or was in 2006. 10:32 <cjwatson> It takes it 100+ minutes to generate all the Packages and Sources again, so avoiding that would be a nice improvement. 10:33 <cjwatson> Then Contents takes 90 minutes. 10:33 * cjwatson files a bug. 10:33 <wgrant> Oh 10:33 <wgrant> It doesn't preserve? 10:34 <cjwatson> Not so you'd notice. From a brief foray into the code, I think it may indeed still be rather difficult to tell 'apt-ftparchive generate' not to update Packages/Sources every time. Worst case, perhaps we can fall back to using 'apt-ftparchive contents' manually. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/1013583/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
