Bug#890356: lintian.d.o: maintainer reports (particular "full" ones) grows without bounds in size

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.73
Severity: normal

Hi,

The maintainer reports (notably the "full" reports) quickly grows in
size (disk space used) and without any bounds.  At the moment, the
lintian.d.o has a complete size usage of ~1GB - half of that is "full
reports" - the second runner up is the uncompressed lintian.log (at
250MB), which will disappear soon.

Individual reports have exploded and the top 10 ranges from ~7.5 to
30MB in raw HTML size[1].  These pages are so painful to low that it
feels like the browser is about to croak on the load/pressure.  I
doubt anyone is reading these reports (I certainly would not at that
scale).

I think we need some better way to deal with these reports.  My best
idea to date is to extract the package reports into a separate report
page and just link to them from the maintainer pages.  However, that
will make the maintainer pages rather useless/boring on their own (but
at least they would probably be "loadable").

Thanks,
~Niels

[1]
$ ls -hlarS reports-directory/www/full | tail
-rw-r--r-- 1 lintian lintian  7.3M Feb 13 04:20 python-modules-team@lists.alioth.debian.org.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 lintian lintian  9.7M Feb 13 04:20 pkg-haskell-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 lintian lintian   11M Feb 13 04:20 debian-gcc@lists.debian.org.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 lintian lintian   12M Feb 13 04:20 pkg-perl-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 lintian lintian   14M Feb 13 04:21 doko@debian.org.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 lintian lintian   17M Feb 13 04:22 thansen@debian.org.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 lintian lintian   18M Feb 13 04:21 calculus@rezozer.net.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 lintian lintian   18M Feb 13 04:21 julien.puydt@laposte.net.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 lintian lintian   18M Feb 13 04:22 infinity0@debian.org.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 lintian lintian   30M Feb 13 04:20 debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org.html