Bug#910280: pandoc: Please reduce the binary size
Quoting KAction@gnu.org (2018-10-05 02:28:17)
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> [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.
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> 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.
We could, yes.
Personally I will not drive that effort, however. I encourage you to
consider driving it yourself, KAction.
- Jonas
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