Re: Large data packages in the archive
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 02:05:02PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 05:52:13PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote:
> > I demand that Alexander E. Patrakov may or may not have written...
> >
> > > Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> > >> That already has a problem: How to define "large"? One way, which we
> > >> chose for now, is simply "everything > 50MB".
> >
> > > Random thought: some architecture-dependent -dbg packages are also > 50 MB
> > > in size. Shouldn't they get some special treatment, too?
> >
> > -Zlzma? :-)
>
> FYI, the most recent CVS snapshots of GDB can read zlib-compressed
> debug info. If someone gets around to an objcopy patch to create it,
> then we can change debhelper to use it...
That would change installed size, not archive size. That'd still be
interesting, though.
Mike
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