Scott Ellis wrote: > They are created by the debhelper program dh_du. They're useful for > figuring out how much space on each of your filesystems a package is > taking up, especially useful if one filesystem is getting cramped. Like > the md5sums file, I wouldn't judge their presence either way.
Wouldn't it be better to compute this on-site? It is not like md5sums where you are comparing the installed files against the distributed ones. And a local calculation could be more accurate, because the package du's count common directories (such as /usr) over and over. Also, getting rid of the du files will free up some space on your cramped /var filesystem :-) Richard Braakman
