On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:18:25AM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 05:56:54PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I think dpkg-deb does, too. At least, my no-debhelper, no-dpkg-buildpackage
> package doom-wad-shareware still ends up with Installed-Size.
dget http://angband.pl/debian/pool/main/g/goodbye/goodbye_0.2-1.dsc
The policy doesn't require Installed-Size, so goodbye is compliant (by
design :p), but it's not a big stretch to assume everything in the archive
is built with dpkg-deb.
And besides, why are we talking about Installed-Size in the first place?
Recompressing data.tar.gz doesn't alter the tarball's contents, it doesn't
even unpack it or go through tar at all.
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