Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...
Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> writes:
> Le Tue, May 15, 2012 at 01:54:53AM +0200, David Kalnischkies a écrit :
>> And the fields defining a difference in versions are:
>> Installed-Size, Depends, Pre-Depends, Conflicts, Breaks and Replaces.
>> Differences in all other fields are ignored (as they are not guaranteed to
>> be present - the status file e.g. misses the deb filesize as well as
>> checksums for obvious reasons).
> Installed-Size is not marked as mandatory or recommended in the Debian
> policy. Do you think this is something to be corrected ?
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-binarycontrolfiles
Installed-Size is generated automatically by dpkg-buildpackage, so the
only way that you'd get a package without it is by manually creating a
package, which nearly no one does. So in practice it's always there,
although it might not be a bad idea to make that clear in Policy.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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