On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 07:32:54AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 04 Aug 2016, Holger Levsen wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 09:30:19AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > [...] > > > > 2) When unpackaging the orig.tar.gz translating binary data to > > > > text format and recompress using xz the tarball is "only" 265MB. > > > > The transformation process takes about 30min on my Laptop - not > > > > longer than any larger project might need to build but the > > > > resulting binary package would have again close to 1GB. > > [...] > > > > 2b) Do the conversion of the format in postinst at the expense > > > > of users time which is acceptable since the package usually > > > > unpacks on high performance machines and not so many > > > > installations which means bandwidth and disk space on Debian > > > > mirrors should be saved here instead of users machine > > > > > > > > Source tarball 256MB + binary package ~250MB (estimated) > > > > this seems the most reasonable option to me. > > Agreed, although the option to download the dataset from upstream is > also a valid choice.
I instead think the best action would be to print a message at postinst
inviting the user to run a script to convert the data. 250MB ain't that
much as a package, so that doesn't worry me (but it would be if that was
1g), but really seeing a postinst running for dozens of minutes is imho
not nice.
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