Re: Bug#37999: du -S'ing the archive (was: Re: weekly policy summary)
Hi,
>>"Jason" == Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca> writes:
Jason> Well, I haven't seen a patch to modify dinstall and I haven't
Jason> seen a patch to modify dselect+apt either - so there is
Jason> definately lots of work to still be done by someone.
You are right. What is out there is kind of a proof of concept
thing -- I did not look into either dinstall or apt to see what would
be needed to complete this. May be one of these days ....
Jason> I also tend to disagree with including a du -s list in the
Jason> control tar, the archive scripts can be made to generate such
Jason> a list on the fly at the same time they generate the contents
Jason> file.
I'm sorry, I was under the impression that this was the
conclusion we reached on that proposal (ading things to control.tar
would require every .deb be modified, and we agreed not to do that).
This could be something all the folks who are interested in
becoming developers but are stymied by the new maintainer process can
look into ;-)
manoj
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