Debian bug report logs - #1138, boring messages

Subject: Bug#1138: ncurses-runtime preinst unnecessarily slow
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From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
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Package: ncurses-runtime
Version: 1.9.3-0

] # Tar can't cope with existing links (there are a lot) in /usr/lib/terminfo.
] echo "This will take several minutes..."
] find /usr/lib/terminfo -! -name '*.dpkg-tmp' -type f -exec rm -f '{}' \;

This is more efficiently done as:
 find /usr/lib/terminfo ! -name '*.dpkg-tmp' -type -f -print0 | \
	xargs -r0 rm --

(Incidentally, the new C version of dpkg has no trouble overwriting
symlinks, so this kludge code will be able to go away eventually.)

Ian.

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To: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
Subject: Bug#1138: Acknowledgement (was: ncurses-runtime preinst unnecessarily slow)
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Subject: Bug#1138: ncurses-runtime preinst unnecessarily slow
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iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk said:
ncurses-runtime preinst unnecessarily slow
> This is more efficiently done as:  find /usr/lib/terminfo ! -name
> '*.dpkg-tmp' -type -f -print0 | \ 	xargs -r0 rm --

Hrmph. You young whipper-snappers want everything to be fast. You don't know
how easy you have it. When I was young, I walked to school a half-mile in the
snow. And then the only computer terminal they had in the whole school was a
teletype
ASR-33 connected to the county computer at 300 Baud that you could use to
write BASIC programs with no graphics. And they wouldn't let you learn BASIC
until you'd taken calculus. Do you think that computer was fast? Why should I
make ncurses-runtime install faster for you young punks? I waited for it to
install, and so should you!

	Bruce :-)
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From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: Bruce Perens <bruce@Pixar.com>
Subject: Bug#1138: Info received (was Bug#1138: ncurses-runtime preinst unnecessarily slow)
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