On 12/09/25 7:40 pm, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 04:03:52PM +0530, Nilesh Patra a écrit : >> >> If there is a way to add the test data in a single tar without inflating the >> size of debian/ dir, I agree that this would be fair enough. However, I have >> no >> idea how to do that. > > Hi Nilesh, I tried to research about multi-tar packages, and I am under > the impression that when a multi-tar package A's version increases, both > a new A_version.orig.tar.gz and new A_version.orig-foo.tar.gz tarball > has to be uploaded, so unless the archive does smart deduplication there > is no gain..._
If we have the data inside of debian/tests itself, every debian revision (not new upstream) will include copies of that data in debian.tar.xz tarball. Having it in MUT adds to the size per upstream release. I don't personally mind having even big size data inside debian/tests but FTP masters are not happy about it and started rejecting our packages which is the reason this was ever added into the policy.
