This bug should be reopened (I don't have permissions) since upgrading
to raring has the same issue. I even test with new saucy and it get a
poor perfomance. The process "reading database list" is running more
than 5 minutes for me in a quad-core i7 laptop with 20 GB RAM. I think
that it is not a problem with low hardware specs, it is a software
problem. Also It probably needs a pararell implementation version of
dpkg for allow to use all the cores and optimize the perfomance.

In my opinion this should be high or critical priority since install
packages is a common operation and each release we have more packages
and programs installed or available.

Related: 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=69192
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/398870

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #69192
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=69192

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