#1095080 apt-listchanges is extremely slow

#1095080#5
Date:
2025-02-03 15:29:42 UTC
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Hi, I've noticed that starting not too long ago apt-listchanges has
become extremely slow at parsing changelogs during upgrades.

As an example, see how it took almost four minutes to parse the
changelogs of ~700 packages. I had downloaded them before running the
time command, of course, and quit the pager as soon as it showed up.

    $ time apt upgrade --no-new-pkgs

    real    3m59,963s
    user    4m2,277s
    sys     0m42,007s

How is this possible? Why has this started happening only recently?

Bye!