On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:20:57 +0100, Antonio Valentino wrote: > Hi David,
Ciao, > [..] > > You should strip all the binaries and PDFs from the tarball. This is > > a common issue in Debian (think of java packages where most of > > upstreams embed *.jar files). > > Unfortunately PDF files also include the user manual end the reference > documentation of functions the program provides. > The program GUI has a menu from which the user can select the document > to show (the document is displayed in the pdf-reder program). > > Sources of PDF documents are not provided so I think need to have PDFs > around. Then it can't go to Debian main. It can (maybe) go to non-free though. Please ask upstream to provide sources for those PDFs, or strip them from the tarball. > Summary of the unpacked archive: > > binary programs: 172M (can be stripped) > PDFs: 166M (it is better to stay in IMHO) > sources and data files: 71M > ActiveTcl: 21M (can be stripped) > > Do you think 166M + 71M unpacked are a reasonable size to put on the > VCS? I think 71M are a reasonable size. I.e. drop the PDFs ;) > [..] > > I currently have a get-orig-source target to repack the zip archive > into a tar.gz. > Of course I could improve it to strip unnecessary files. Usually, a get-orig-source is not needed to repack a zip into a tgz. You could just have used "uscan --repack" ;) But yes, if you have it, then it's good to put everything there. Buona serata, David -- . ''`. Debian developer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://deb.li/dapal `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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