Bug#233393: marked as done (Inefficient packaging of arch independent data in package libgcj4)
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Subject: Inefficient packaging of arch independent data in package libgcj4
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From: Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
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Package: libgcj4
Version: various
Severity: normal
This is a semi-automated bug report based on scanning the contents of
binary .deb files in the unstable Debian archive.
The libgcj4 packages seem to contain a very large amount of
architecture-independent data in architecture-dependent packages,
specifically data installed under /usr/share. This is wasteful of
mirror space and bandwidth, as we then end up with multiple copies of
this data, one for each architecture. Initial estimates suggest that
several gigabytes of Debian archive space may currently be wasted
because of packages like this.
The way to fix this depends on the layout of your package:
* Some packages need to have a -common or -doc package split out to
contain this common data, and the existing packages that need this
data should then be altered to depend on the new -common or -doc
package.
* This package may already be such a -common or -doc package, in
which case it probably should already be marked as Architecture:
all in your debian/control file rather than Architecture: any .
* Maybe the files under /usr/share do not belong there - several
packages seem to contain data in /usr/share that is definitely
architecture-dependent. In this case, please move the files into
the right place.
Policy is quite clear on this point:
http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices#s-bpp-archindepdata
The usage of these packages is currently:
debsize pkgsize /usr/share % filename
3772818 11712 4388 37 pool/main/g/gcc-3.3/libgcj4_3.3.3-0pre3_arm.deb
4665592 19776 4388 22 pool/main/g/gcc-3.3/libgcj4_3.3.3-0pre3_ia64.deb
4061992 12180 4388 36 pool/main/g/gcc-3.3/libgcj4_3.3.3-0pre3_m68k.deb
4399840 13452 4388 32 pool/main/g/gcc-3.3/libgcj4_3.3.3-0pre3_s390.deb
4032628 12940 4388 33 pool/main/g/gcc-3.3/libgcj4_3.3.3-0pre3_sparc.deb
4295746 17204 4388 25 pool/main/g/gcc-3.3/libgcj4_3.3.3-0pre4_alpha.deb
3979320 12480 4388 35 pool/main/g/gcc-3.3/libgcj4_3.3.3-0pre4_i386.deb
4133892 13248 4388 33 pool/main/g/gcc-3.3/libgcj4_3.3.3-0pre4_powerpc.deb
Please split this package appropriately. If you believe your package
is already split reasonably, then sorry for bothering you. If you wish
to discuss this further, please feel free to reply to this bug. If you
agree that there's a problem here but need help to fix it: again, feel
free to ask...
Thanks,
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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According to upstream (Michael Koch?) some byte compiled classes are
OS dependent (not necessarily architecture dependent).
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