Interestingly enough this does not appear to be the current bottle
neck of lintian (or I am doing something wrong in my patch).
~Niels
$ dpkg --contents eclipse-platform-data_3.5.2-8_all.deb | wc -l
1480
lintian 2.4.3
$ for i in {1..5} ; do time lintian -EI --pedantic
eclipse-platform-data_3.5.2-8_all.deb ; done
real0m9.170s
user0m4.556s
sys 0m0.908s
real0m9.083s
user0m4.628s
sys 0m0.868s
real0m10.285s
user0m4.600s
sys 0m0.928s
real0m9.762s
user0m4.524s
sys 0m0.972s
real0m8.833s
user0m4.624s
sys 0m0.864s
lintian 2.4.4 (from git with patch)
$ for i in {1..5} ; do time lintian -EI --pedantic
eclipse-platform-data_3.5.2-8_all.deb ; done
real0m7.659s
user0m4.484s
sys 0m1.024s
real0m9.412s
user0m4.556s
sys 0m0.944s
real0m8.672s
user0m4.496s
sys 0m0.992s
real0m9.090s
user0m4.496s
sys 0m0.976s
real0m9.000s
user0m4.460s
sys 0m1.052s
diff --git a/checks/changelog-file b/checks/changelog-file
index 8147095..40f4b0f 100644
--- a/checks/changelog-file
+++ b/checks/changelog-file
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ for my $file (sort keys %{$info-file_info}) {
}
# Read package contents Capitalization errors are dealt with later.
-foreach (sort keys %{$info-index}) {
+foreach (@{$info-sorted_index}) {
next unless length $_;
# skip packages which have a /usr/share/doc/$pkg - foo symlink
if (m,usr/share/doc/$ppkg$, and defined $info-index-{$_}-{link}) {
diff --git a/checks/copyright-file b/checks/copyright-file
index 336d0f4..267ed43 100644
--- a/checks/copyright-file
+++ b/checks/copyright-file
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ my $found = 0;
my $linked = 0;
# Read package contents...
-foreach (sort keys %{$info-index}) {
+foreach (@{$info-sorted_index}) {
my $index_info = $info-index-{$_};
if (m,usr/(share/)?doc/$ppkg/copyright(\.\S+)?$,) {
my $ext = $2;
diff --git a/checks/etcfiles b/checks/etcfiles
index bc61715..9a734b1 100644
--- a/checks/etcfiles
+++ b/checks/etcfiles
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ if (open(IN, '', $conffiles)) {
}
# Read package contents...
-foreach my $file (sort keys %{$info-index}) {
+foreach my $file (@{$info-sorted_index}) {
my $index_info = $info-index-{$file};
next unless $file =~ m,^etc, and $index_info-{type}=~ m/^[-h]/;
diff --git a/checks/fields b/checks/fields
index e5f7108..848e9ac 100644
--- a/checks/fields
+++ b/checks/fields
@@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ if (defined $info-field('installer-menu-item')) {
my $metapackage = 0;
if ($type eq 'binary') {
$metapackage = 1;
- for my $file (keys %{$info-index}) {
+ for my $file (@{$info-sorted_index}) {
next if $info-index-{$file}-{type} =~ /^d/;
next if $file =~ m%^usr/share/doc/%;
next if $file =~ m%^usr/share/lintian/overrides/%;
diff --git a/checks/files b/checks/files
index 56cf40b..aa140dc 100644
--- a/checks/files
+++ b/checks/files
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ if ($description) {
}
}
if ($is_empty) {
-for my $file (sort keys %{$info-index}) {
+for my $file (@{$info-sorted_index}) {
# Ignore directories
unless ($file =~ m,/$,) {
# Skip if $file is an empty string
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ if ($is_empty) {
}
# Read package contents...
-foreach my $file (sort keys %{$info-index}) {
+foreach my $file (@{$info-sorted_index}) {
next if $file eq ;
my $index_info = $info-index-{$file};
my $owner = $index_info-{owner} . '/' . $index_info-{group};
@@ -1204,7 +1204,7 @@ if ($pkg_section !~ m,games$, and $games 0 and $other == 0) {
# so just ignore them.
#
# python-support needs a directory for each package even it might be empty
-foreach my $dir (sort keys %{$info-index}) {
+foreach my $dir (@{$info-sorted_index}) {
next if $dir eq or $info-index-{$dir}-{type} ne 'd';
next if ($dir =~ m{^var/} or $dir =~ m{^etc/});
next if $pkg eq 'base-files';
diff --git a/checks/infofiles b/checks/infofiles
index 2c5b994..872a74b 100644
--- a/checks/infofiles
+++ b/checks/infofiles
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ my %missing_section;
my $has_info_file;
# Read package contents...
-foreach my $file (sort keys %{$info-index}) {
+foreach my $file (@{$info-sorted_index}) {
my $index_info = $info-index-{$file};
my $file_info = $info-file_info-{$file};
my $link = $index_info-{link} || '';
diff --git a/checks/manpages b/checks/manpages
index 0035bda..17912d2 100644
--- a/checks/manpages
+++ b/checks/manpages
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ my %link;
my %manpage;
# Read package contents...
-foreach my $file (sort keys %{$info-index}) {
+foreach my $file (@{$info-sorted_index}) {
my $index_info = $info-index-{$file};
my $file_info = $info-file_info-{$file};
my $link = $index_info-{link} || '';
diff --git a/checks/menu-format b/checks/menu-format
index bbb4bc8..4e85dae 100644
--- a/checks/menu-format
+++ b/checks/menu-format
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ closedir MENUDIR;
# Find the desktop files in the package for verification.
my @desktop_files;
