Re: Packaging _still_ wasteful for many large packages

[Jeremy Nimmer <jwnimmer@alum.mit.edu>]

On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 03:13, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> There are a _lot_ more package files listed this
> time (4305 vs 109), which means it probably covers ~400 packages in
> total this time. That's why I want to check again on -devel before
> posting bugs. New list at
> http://people.debian.org/~93sam/waste2.txt

Unless anyone has a reason to suspect that a re-packaging will make it
into woody updates, I suggest that you only draw results from sarge and
sid.  For instance, #232885 (celestia 1.2.2) is only in woody; the 1.3.0
version in sarge/sid already has celestia-common.  Other large offenders
in waste2.txt (e.g., libxalan1.2-dev) are also woody-only.

Thanks,
- Jeremy