On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 17:31:47 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 14 mai 2012 à 17:56 -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : > > Installed-Size is generated automatically by dpkg-buildpackage, so the > > only way that you'd get a package without it is by manually creating a > > package, which nearly no one does. So in practice it's always there, > > although it might not be a bad idea to make that clear in Policy. > > It is a very bad idea to rely on Installed-Size being the same, since > its value, being computed with du(1) can vary depending on the > filesystem the package is built upon.
Not anymore since dpkg 1.16.1 which switched dpkg-gencontrol to use --apparent-size. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120515182736.ga1...@gaara.hadrons.org
