Your message dated Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:18:29 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#513096: please split dvdisaster-doc package (1 package
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Package: dvdisaster-doc
Version: 0.71.27-1
Severity: wishlist
The dvdisaster-doc package is now huge: it takes 15 MB on disk, while
the etch version (and even the previous version 0.71.26-2) was taking
4 MB only. It currently provides the documentation in 3 languages: de,
en and ru. It should be split into 3 packages dvdisaster-doc-de,
dvdisaster-doc-en and dvdisaster-doc-ru, like what some other software
does (e.g. texlive-doc-*).
Note: even if the current package fits on the disk, huge packages may
still lead to a performance problem for indexing and/or searching the
doc.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26.5-20080922 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
dvdisaster-doc depends on no packages.
dvdisaster-doc recommends no packages.
Versions of packages dvdisaster-doc suggests:
ii dvdisaster 0.71.27-1 data loss/scratch/aging protection
-- no debconf information
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Hi,
Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> The dvdisaster-doc package is now huge: it takes 15 MB on disk, while
> the etch version (and even the previous version 0.71.26-2) was taking
> 4 MB only. It currently provides the documentation in 3 languages: de,
> en and ru. It should be split into 3 packages dvdisaster-doc-de,
> dvdisaster-doc-en and dvdisaster-doc-ru, like what some other software
> does (e.g. texlive-doc-*).
that's micropackaging and not worth to save the ~6mb (if you install
only one language instead of all). If disks space is so much of a
conceirn, one would most likely not install the documentation at all or
not keep it installed all the time.
> Note: even if the current package fits on the disk, huge packages may
> still lead to a performance problem for indexing and/or searching the
> doc.
It's not that huge. we're speaking of a couple of megabytes, not
hundreds, ymmv.
No hard feelings but I'm closing the bug, however, feel free to reopen
and tag wontfix if you prefere that.
Regards,
Daniel
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