On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 02:10:13PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 07:36:30PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Theodore Ts'o, le lun. 08 juil. 2019 13:25:32 -0400, a ecrit: > > > How important is noudeb, and why is defined in the first place? > > > > My usage of noudeb is mostly to avoid the two-times-longer build time > > It used to be that I built e2fsprogs twice; once for udebs, and once > for the "normal" build. I'm planning on ripping that out as being > complexity that seems incredibly painful to convert to using dh, and > the cost seems to be growing the installed size of e2fsprogs-udeb by > 145k (or roughly 15%).
Per my other reply, you may find that it isn't that painful after all once you find the right approach. For instance, while a separate udeb build pass does make https://salsa.debian.org/ssh-team/openssh/blob/master/debian/rules a little bit more complicated, I wouldn't say it's something I find myself having to think about very often. > P.S. If anyone thinks that increasing the size of the debian > installer by 145k is unacceptable, please let me know now.... This is something you'd need to run past debian-boot@, as there may well be particular images for which it still matters (I haven't kept up, but it's certainly something they'd want to be informed of). -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]
