[Bug 1663749] Re: Backport "libdpkg: Only preallocate disk size for files bigger than 16 KiB".

[Łukasz Zemczak]

Hello Vinson, or anyone else affected,

Accepted dpkg into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be
available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/1.18.4ubuntu1.2
in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how
to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this
update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
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from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the
bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to
verification-failed.  In either case, details of your testing will help
us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
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advance!

** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu Xenial)
       Status: New => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed

** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu Yakkety)
       Status: New => Fix Committed

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Title:
  Backport "libdpkg: Only preallocate disk size for files bigger than 16
  KiB".

Status in dpkg:
  Fix Released
Status in dpkg package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in dpkg source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed
Status in dpkg source package in Yakkety:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  Please backport upstream dpkg patch "libdpkg: Only preallocate disk
  size for files bigger than 16 KiB" to xenial, yakkety, and zesty
  versions of dpkg.

  dpkg 1.17.11 commit "dpkg: Try to preallocate the disk size for
  extracted files" causes installs of packages with many small files to
  be slow.
  https://anonscm.debian.org/git/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?id=87b0b20b86407baf1deb4e91b3fd839e01228ac8

  This was fixed in dpkg 1.18.15 with "libdpkg: Only preallocate disk
  size for files bigger than 16 KiB".
  https://anonscm.debian.org/git/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?id=a971ad91437af8880cad4703695dcf12ee45959b

  trusty dpkg is based off 1.17.5 and is not affected. xenial dpkg based
  off 1.18.4, yakkety dpkg based off 1.18.10, and zesty dpkg based off
  1.18.10 need the fix.

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