Re: Newer vegastrike : can we package that big ?
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 09:56:11AM +0200, Vincent Fourmond wrote:
> The problem is, the final tarball weights 500MB, with an installed
> size of nearly 1GB, which is twice as big as the biggest package
> currently in the archive. The current vegastrike-data weights 310MB
> installed-size, 157MB debian package (plus 70MB for vegastrike-music).
How about trying several compression programs? I'm sure it will not solve
the problem but it could reduce at least the .deb size by maybe 10-20%.
Can you post some statistics?
I'm sure it's not a problem to add a new dependence on a uncompression
package if this reduces the size sufficiently. A much more difficult
step would be analysing the content of the game. Maybe the data files
can be generated from a smaller source package? But this is upstreams
task and would affect only the source package.
Jens
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