Bug#910280: pandoc: Please reduce the binary size
[2018-10-05 00:50] Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk>
> Quoting John MacFarlane (2018-10-04 19:58:54)
> > Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> writes:
> >
> > > The proper solution here, I guess (but am not expert in Haskell so
> > > may be wrong) is to switch to using shared linking, so that 5
> > > Haskell binaries will not consume 5 x the disk space of the parts
> > > reused among them.
We could generate packages with compressed binaries in a way, similar to
*-dbg packages. All compiled languages, except C (Go, Rust, Haskell)
would benefit, but it is quite a bit of work -- changes to debhelper and
reprorepo, at least.
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