Hi Ben, > Thank you for filing this at “wishlist” severity. What do you think this > amount of storage is worth a new package? Bear in mind that new packages > also require an additional overhead of storage.
> Currently I'm inclined to leave these files in the packages, until there is > at least an order of magnitude greater duplication. According to <http://packages.debian.org/sid/python-coverage>, this package is currently built on 19 architectures, thus we have 38 .deb packages shipping those files. The benefit will be something like: (11229 + 3595 + 264 + 267 + 3585 + 5256) × 38 = 919448 bytes, minus size of files /usr/share/doc in the new package … which is definitely small enough to not care about. So feel free to close this bug. I should really have done this calculation before filing this bug. -- Dmitry Shachnev
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