merkys@debian.org, on 2020-04-12 07:44:10 +0300: > Hi Andreas, > > On 2020-04-11 19:37, Andreas Tille wrote: > > When following the Debian Med scheme to make the autopkgtest user > > runnable you need to install the example data into the binary package > > as example. > > Is this necessary? Autopkgtest runner always has the source package at > hand (actually, it is executed inside the source tree), thus one could > simply use 'example/' directory from there. Or is there any gotcha? > Supplying autopkgtest data in binary packages introduces unnecessarily > bloat. For what it's worth, the example data adds 808K in the user's system. The package with example data weights 392K, thanks to compression. Without example data this drops to a .deb weighting 44K; that represents one order of magnitude. Would it be worth putting example data in a side package, say for instance "prinseq-lite-example" ? Genuine testing is not yet in place anyway. Kind Regards, -- Étienne Mollier <etienne.mollier@mailoo.org> Fingerprint: 5ab1 4edf 63bb ccff 8b54 2fa9 59da 56fe fff3 882d Help find cures against the Covid-19 ! Give CPU cycles: * Rosetta@home: https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/ * Folding@home: https://foldingathome.org/
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