On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 10:20:04PM +0200, Dimitrios Eftaxiopoulos wrote: > > [1] Have a look at /bin/bzip2 and /bin/bunzip2. They are hardlinks but > > perform different jobs. > > I may be wrong but bzip2 and bunzip2 seem to be distinct executables. They > add > up to 60,9kB while each one is 30,5kB.
They are hard links. Use ls -li to see that their inodes are the same and that they have link-count 2. Could you maybe add something like the following to your debian/rules file? cmp -s $(CURDIR)/debian/freefem++/usr/bin/FreeFem++ $(CURDIR)/debian/freefem++/usr/bin/FreeFem++-nw && ln -f $(CURDIR)/debian/freefem++/usr/bin/FreeFem++ $(CURDIR)/debian/freefem++/usr/bin/FreeFem++-nw At present this will reduce the size of the binary package by 18%. Should upstream decide to ship different files in a future version, then this command is turned into a no-op because the cmp fails. The link showing the reduction was broken in my initial bug report. The correct one is http://dedup.debian.net/binary/freefem++. Thanks for considering. Helmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
