Hi Till, Thanks for rising this question. Le mercredi, 8 janvier 2014, 12.42:04 Till Kamppeter a écrit : > OdyX, you have split foo2zjs into printer-driver-foo2zjs and > printer-driver-foo2zjs-common telling that you want all > arch-independent files being shared across architectures. This saves > some disk space in the build server infrastructure (there should be > plenty of disk space) This was triggered by the arch-dep-package-has-big-usr-share lintian informational tag: http://lintian.debian.org/tags/arch-dep-package-has-big-usr-share.html Where it saves the most is on the mirrors, especially on Debian, as we currently have 13 architectures. The saving (although not huge) is of ~400 kB per package, for a new package of ~520 kB, altogether a ~4.6Mb saving. I agree it's not immense, but it's a small move in the direction of containing the continuous archive grow. (Also, it's probably worth mentioning that this change went through the NEW queue, so the FTP-Masters had to acknowledge that change…) > and on the user side it is probably without any benefit as nowadays no > one shares a system disk partition between several computers (which > can be of different architectures). Well, it's without downsides either as far as I can tell, no? The update should be fully transparent for all users, no? > So for me it looks like that it makes building and updating more > complicated without real benefit. Or what are the real advantages? Well, I can agree that src:foo2zjs became a little more complicated to maintain, but it's really not a burden, as far as I'm concerned… (Fixing the manpages or the build-system were way more cumbersome to do fwiw.) That said, if you have serious reasons to revert that, I'd happily hear them… Cheers, OdyX
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