[Bug 1992163] Re: [BPO] man-db/2.10.2-1 from jammy

[Colin Watson]

As the upstream maintainer, my advice when asked has been that
attempting to cherry-pick this particular set of fixes for an SRU would
be very difficult to get right.  I think it's likely that the GitLab
merge request linked above depends on a number of other preparatory
commits.  I'm not going to stop people trying, but I think it would be
difficult for somebody unfamiliar with the code.

It's been a while since I was involved in this, but when I was last on
the team that reviewed SRUs I don't think I'd have let pure performance
fixes through unless they were very trivial and obvious.

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Title:
  [BPO] man-db/2.10.2-1 from jammy

Status in man-db package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  [Impact]

   * Users of man-db/2.9.1-1 in focal are sometimes facing
  unresponsiveness when man-db is called from an `apt upgrade` or `apt
  install` command (the man-db command freezes).

  [Scope]

   * Backport from jammy man-db/2.10.2-1

   * Backport to focal

  [Other Info]

   * man-db >= 2.10.0-2 fixes the behavior described above as per LP:
  #1858777 ("Fix Released")

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