On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 11:14:05PM +0100, David Schmitt wrote: > On Thursday 17 March 2005 23:06, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 10:15:50PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > To know in how many packages to split or not to split the packages ? > > > > That would be one of the things that maintainers have gotten wrong in the > > past, yes. > > Would it be possible to code a check for lintian/linda how much space is used > by the package in /usr/share and report an error when crossing a threshold > (100kb? 500kB?) for Arch != all? Lintian has had a check in it for a while now for du -s /usr/share > (I think) 1MB in arch != all packages. It could be a percentage check as well / instead, I don't recall the details. - Matt
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