[Popcon-developers] Bug#622322: popularity-contest: popcon tries to access dpkg internal files and fails with multiarch: same packageso

[Bill Allombert]

On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 09:01:12PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Sun, 08 May 2011, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > > Thanks, seems to work fine, I have no error/warning at least.
> > > 
> > OK, so you get comparable results. It is very odd that there so much a difference between
> > batch of 1 package and batch of 2 packages. Maybe this is a dpkg issue ?
> 
> Actually it's a bug in your script... replace "length @pkglist"
> with "scalar @pkglist" and you'll get entirely different results...
> which are much more logical.
> 
> batch of 5: 0m37.426s
> batch of 10: 0m20.974s
> batch of 50: 0m7.722s
> batch of 200: 0m5.090s
> batch of 1000: 0m4.437s

Ah thanks for spotting that mistake!

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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