On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 10:35:50AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, Mike Hommey wrote: > > FWIW, I'm testing this on libxml2. I'd have some remarks: > > - The .symbols file in /var/lib/dpkg/info is bigger than all the other > > maintainer files there for libxml2. If a significant amount of packages > > implement this, it can start to make a difference. It might be nice to > > support a gzipped format. > > In particular for C++ packages. For C packages, the size impact is quite > limited compared to the size of the respective libraries. > > I didn't implement this until now because all files in control.tar.gz have > always been plain text files and I'm not sure I want to change this. Other > opinions are welcome.
Maybe that should be done when dpkg puts the files in /var/lib/dpkg/info, not in control.tar.gz Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
