On 11/9/20 11:36 PM, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > [4] We first thought about an entire new archive, but that is much more > separate, creating a higher workload on maintaining it. > Additionally, it would create problems following the licenses of > packages. Then we thought about a new component besides > main/contrib/non-free, and while that works better, it still has > many negative side effects including requiring extra package > uploads, extra tracking for the release team and requiring multiple > components if we later decide that we need to support this for all > of main, contrib and non-free.
Hi Joerg, First of all, thanks for working on this, and caring for the size of the indices, which will greatly benefit our users. I'm sorry but I don't understand everything here. If we aren't going to have new components like main/contrib/non-free, how will it work? We main contain a new Packages.{gz,xz} file containing these? I'm guessing that it's not just a modification to that file, because you wrote the goal is to diminish its size... Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)