Debian
dpkg package

  1. Bug #398870
  2. Comment #19

Comment 19 for bug 398870

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Graham Poulter (grahampo) wrote :

Sorry, the "long-term solution" does not explain why "Reading database" used to be fast under older versions of Ubuntu. Can anyone explain why fragmentation came to be a problem for /var/lib/dpkg/info in recent versions of Ubuntu?