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Bug#233392: Inefficient packaging of arch independent data in package libc6



On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 11:46:39AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
>Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> No problem here. The zone info is actually quite small (compressed)
>> within the .deb, not really big enough to warrant the split I was
>> (mistakenly) asking for. Sorry for bothering you and thanks for
>> looking into this.
>
>It is, however, 5 mb unpacked, which is quite large compared to the
>overall size of the debian base system.

True. On a really small system that will hurt.

>> Joey, where is the existing bug asking for the split? I can't find it
>> in a quick check through the BTS...
>
>I can't find it, it may have been only a post to the debian-glibc
>mailing list.

OK, that explains it.

Is it worth some discussion on debian-devel here to see what other
people think?

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
"...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user'
 as meaning someone who's only ever written one device driver." -- Daniel Pead

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