Re: Intent to ship xfonts-wqy pcf fonts uncompressed
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 01:42:40PM +0800, Deng Xiyue wrote:
> There's been a long standing performance issue of using xfonts-wqy due
> to compression. As Fang Qianqian <fangq@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> pointed
> out, the Debian Policy[1] requires pcf to be gzipped. However, due to
> the huge set of Chinese characters, the compression brings serious
> performance issue as pointed out in bug #384149[2]. There is intention
> to ship such fonts ungzipped, which should alleviate the situatio. Due
> to the complication with Debian Policy, we think it'd better to have a
> discussion in debian-devel and debian-policy mailing lists for a
> suggestion.
Hello Xiyue,
Could we have some hard numbers ? What is the space saving of
compressing them ? What is the time to uncompress them ?
What is the amount of the performance issue ?
If this suggests that both approach have merit, maybe we could add a
debconf question asking whether they should be gunzip'ed after
installation to accomodate people with different space/speed
requirement ?
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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