On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 03:16:57PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > The binNMU issue entails two ???sub-problems???. The first is the one > introduced by different entries in binNMUs on multiple architectures. > The other is the unmatched versions for possible out-of-step binNMU > versions.
I acknowledge that I am coming late to the party. I dug into the discussion referenced from your other mail, but had a hard time finding specific arguments. This discussion appears to be a good candidate for http://wiki.debian.org/Debate even though it is probably too late to start that now. > dpkg supports --control-show and --control-list (already in wheezy), which > can be used for stuff like: > > $ dpkg-query --control-show dpkg changelog > > for installed packages, for example. Or: > > $ dpkg-deb --info foo.deb changelog Maybe someone can point me to previous discussion answering aspects of the following questions? 1) Raphael Hertzog suggested[1] that metadata could be stored compressed. Is that implemented already? (As far as I can see it would be part of file_show, but isn't.) If not, that would cause an increase in installation size. I guess that a typical desktop system would grow by about 50MB. Note that the Emdebian crush policy requires copyright files to be compressed and changelogs to be absent. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=681289#40 2) Some users may want to save disk space by elevating dpkg.cfg path-exclude=/usr/share/doc/*/changelog* path-exclude=/usr/share/doc/*/copyright This saves about 50MB on a desktop system. Is there a feature to systematically drop meta data? Being in the ball park of less than a percent of the installation size I am not sure whether this is worth the effort. Helmut -- 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/20130514073045.ga10...@alf.mars
