Bug#570772: squeeze: partition sizes to small for recommended packages

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Petter Reinholdtsen]
> There are three strategies for solving this:
> 
>  - Clean up recommends in Debian packages, to avoid installing so
>    many packages.  An example of such issue is fluid-soundfont-gm
>    recommending fluid-soundfont-gs, while we only want to install
>    one of them.

I've asked for fluid-soundfont-gm to not recommend fluid-soundfont-gs
(#571316), and followed up on a proposal for gnash to not recommend
csound (#570212).  This should save some space, but we need to try to
find other recommends that should be removed too.  Perhaps compare the
list of installed packages in lenny with the list of packages
installed in squeeze, or by looking at the largest packages and verify
that we really want to have them installed.

>  - Extend partition sizes to make room for the extra packages, which
>    will increase the disk space requirement and make it harder for us
>    testing the installation in virtual machines (I do not have more
>    space to spend on the virtual disk. :).

For the record, at the moment a main-server+thin-client-server
installation need this much space in MB on the overfull partitions:

  /opt  5527 (6144 minimum in the recipe)
  /usr  6115 (6144 minimum in the recipe)
  /var  2884 (2624 minimum in the recipe)

One would believe the recipe size is big enough, but partman some
times create partitions smaller than the minimum size given in the
recipe, leading to too small partitions. :(

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen