Re: [PATCH] fields.c: Avoid unnecessary translations for error messages

Hi! On Sun, 2017-04-02 at 13:43:00 +, Niels Thykier wrote: > Attached patch reduces the "start up" time of dpkg-query by 10% to 20% > (depending on whether you run it under C-locale or not). On a system > with about ~1.4k packages installed (and a non-C locale), this is the > difference betwe

Re: RFC: Unified package metadata format

Hi! On Tue, 2017-04-04 at 07:20:00 +, Niels Thykier wrote: > Guillem Jover: > > I don't think this is correct. Initial whitespace gets ignored (this is > > not clear from mtree(5), but that's what the various implementations do). > > The subset of type of lines I'm intending to support would b