I can confirm this too. Especially when you select a package and needs to find and select other packages that the first one depends on its so slow you think it has crashed.
I used Dapper up to yesterday and run the update and its the first problem I noticed. (used to be very fast there) -- Synaptic too slow https://launchpad.net/bugs/63171 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
