Bug#447212: libgcj-doc: Uses lots of additional disk space when installing
reassign 447212 apt
thanks
not an issue with libgcj-doc itself; with your reasoning you could
file a bug report for every package.
Witold Baryluk writes:
> Package: libgcj-doc
> Version: 4.2.2-3
> Severity: minor
>
> libgcj-doc is big, and when using apt for install/upgrade
> it says that will use about 300MB of hard disk space,
> (or only few MB if upgrading). But if i have previous version
> of libgcj-doc, 50MB of free disk space, and apt says that
> 10MB of additional disk space will be used it isn't true.
>
> libgcj-doc on installation temporarly want to use about 200
> (mayby 300) magabytes of hard disk space in /usr. This is
> in disagreement with apt and makes installation to _fail_,
> becaouse no free space is left in /usr.
>
> I suggest checking free space somehow or changing instalation
> procedure to install files directly.
>
> There is similar problem in other documentation packages
> (like kdelibs4-doc, apt says 380KB additional space will
> be used on upgrade, but temporarly it uses about 300MB)
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: lenny/sid
> APT prefers unstable
> APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 (PREEMPT)
> Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to pl_PL.UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages libgcj-doc depends on:
> pn gcj-4.2-base <none> (no description available)
>
> libgcj-doc recommends no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
>
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