Re: glibc_2.3.6-7_i386.changes REJECTED
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 03:03:31AM -0700, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> Hi maintainers,
>
> Sorry, but I'm going to reject this package.
>
> 1) You're adding a new package directly to unstable, instead of first to
> experimental.
The first point has already been discussed, let's see other ones.
> 2) Glibc is currently RC buggy, and it'd really really be better to just get
> an RC bugfree glibc in testing asap without all kinds of new changes
Which RC bug? The one that was triggered by a change in libstdc++ and
could have been reassigned to it? Or the one about locales that became
RC today?
> 3) The locales-all package is 52MB, 275MB installed size. That's a factor 10
> more than the wishlist (!) bug requestiong the package says. To top this
> off, it's also arch:any, so multiplying the required archive space by quite
> a factor. I'd encourage you to ensure the binary blogs in question are
> architecture neutral, and also look critically at why this package needs to
> be so huge, for 'just' the compiled locales. There are 380 locales
> supported in unstable atm, and the text representations take 6.8M? An easy
> optimalisation is already making sure the 850kB or so LC_COLLATE files of
> utf-8 locales to be shared amongst each of the UTF-8 locales.
Fixed in SVN, here is the relevant changelog entry:
* Preserve hard links when compiling the locales-all package, this reduces
package size by a factor of 3. Thanks to Jeroen van Wolffelaar for noticing.
> 4) You ask packages which previously depend on locales to now depend on
> locales|generated-locales, why not simply let locales-all provide locales?
Fixed in SVN, here is the relevant changelog entry:
* Let locales-all Provides: locales instead of a virtual generated-locales
package. This is requested by Jeroen van Wolffelaar to allow this new
package enter unstable. Packages which Build-Depends on locales are
likely to FTBFS if locales-all is installed, this dependency will be
fixed in a later release.
Please let me know if something else needs to be fixed.
Denis
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