On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 09:30:19AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > my remarks about the size of this package and the explicite request to > discuss it here might have been remain unseen at the end of this ITP so > I'm hereby making some more noise. thanks for that! [...] > > 2) When unpackaging the orig.tar.gz translating binary data to > > text format and recompress using xz the tarball is "only" 265MB. > > The transformation process takes about 30min on my Laptop - not > > longer than any larger project might need to build but the > > resulting binary package would have again close to 1GB. [...] > > 2b) Do the conversion of the format in postinst at the expense > > of users time which is acceptable since the package usually > > unpacks on high performance machines and not so many > > installations which means bandwidth and disk space on Debian > > mirrors should be saved here instead of users machine > > > > Source tarball 256MB + binary package ~250MB (estimated) this seems the most reasonable option to me. -- cheers, Holger
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