Re: Recalling Key Points of the Previous Attempt (was: Re: Regarding the new "Debian User Repository"

["M. Zhou" <lumin@debian.org>]

On Mon, 2021-07-05 at 02:09 +0000, Paul Wise wrote:
On Sun, Jul 4, 2021 at 11:20 AM Mo Zhou wrote:
> (2) use the "hardware capabilities" feature of ld.so(8)
...
> Solution (2) will result in very bulky binary packages;

Solution (2) seems like the only option that can be done entirely
within Debian, how bulky are the packages that use this?


For example, the latest tensorflow packaging (in NEW queue)
results in these binary debs:
(thanks to Wookey, Michael, and Andreas for their work!)

~/Debian/tensorflow ❯❯❯❯ ls -lh *.deb                                                                                                                                                                                                                    18:57:24
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  36M Jul  5 15:25 libtensorflow-cc2_2.3.1-1_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.7G Jul  5 15:25 libtensorflow-cc2-dbgsym_2.3.1-1_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 629K Jul  5 15:25 libtensorflow-dev_2.3.1-1_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.6M Jul  5 15:25 libtensorflow-framework2_2.3.1-1_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 128M Jul  5 15:25 libtensorflow-framework2-dbgsym_2.3.1-1_amd64.deb

Supporting multiple ISA variants based on ld.so means a
multiple of the current package size.