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Package: coreutils
Version: 5.97-5.1
Severity: normal
I don't know if this is normal or if there's a bug, but upgrading
5.97-5 to 5.97-5.1 lead to a 25% installed size increase:
$ dpkg -f /var/cache/apt/archives/coreutils_5.97-5_i386.deb Installed-Size
8360
$ dpkg -f /var/cache/apt/archives/coreutils_5.97-5.1_i386.deb Installed-Size
10616
whereas the changelog indicates only patches.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-1-686-bigmem
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.41-1 Access control list shared library
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libselinux1 1.32-2 SELinux shared libraries
coreutils recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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That version added selinux support, which brings in a lot of stuff.
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Michael Stone
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