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diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index ae9f5689..b7bb3ad0 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -18,6 +18,11 @@ python-apt (0.7.96) UNRELEASED; urgency=low also that accessing it does not take an inordinate amount of time. This exposes a severe performance problem when using gzip compressed package indexes. + * apt/cache.py: When iterating over the cache, do so sorted by package name. + With this we read the the package lists linearly if we need to access the + package records, instead of having to do thousands of random seeks; the + latter is disastrous if we use compressed package indexes, and slower than + necessary for uncompressed indexes. -- Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org> Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:20:00 +0200 |