On 19/02/09 at 13:09 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > >> Well, Depends: can obviously change between architectures. And there's >> no reason why other fields wouldn't be different as well, since control >> files are generated on a per-arch basis during the build process. > > OK, I'm definitely convinced in this aspect. ;-) > The main point I was worrying about were actually description and > long_description which make a big part of the data. Do you think > it makes sense to try some normalisation here (because I fail to > see a reason why it should be arch dependant)?
Having a big single table might be a performance win compared to several shorter tables that you would often need to join. Also, during import, for each package, you would need to compare if the already stored description matches the one being inserted. Btw, the following packages have different descriptions or long descriptions on different arches: default-jdk default-jre default-jre-headless gedit-plugins libxenomai1 nvidia-kernel-2.6.26-1-amd64 openjdk-6-jre openjdk-6-jre-headless qvwm (only alpha different from others, apparently) -- | Lucas Nussbaum | lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: lu...@nussbaum.fr GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
