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dh_setup_copyright does not perform well on big packages

Background

Apertis relies on dh_setup_copyright to retrieve the list of source files to prepare SBOM. After the improvements in the process, big packages like linux take too long to build and OBS kills the job.

Workaround

Latest changes

Performance improvements

Reproducibility

How often the issue is hit when repeating the steps to reproduce and changing nothing?

Put the in the most appropriate entry:

  1. always
  2. often, but not always
  3. rarely

Impact of bug

How severe is the bug? Does it render an image unbootable? Is it a security issue? Does it prevent specific applications from working? What is the impact? Does this bug affect a critical component? Does it cause something else to not work? How often is the bug likely to be found by a user? For example, every boot or once per year?

Outcomes

TBD

Management data

This section is for management only, it should be the last one in the description.

/cc @em @balasubramanian @sudarshan @wlozano

Phabricator link: https://phabricator.apertis.org/T11019

Edited by Walter Lozano