Package: libmarc-charset-perl Version: 0.98-2 Severity: normal -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
I tried to install libmarc-charset-perl on a machine with a small disk, and it wants to chew up a full 410MB. If /usr/lib/libmarc-charset-perl/Table.pag was distributed as a sparse file, it would be no more than 30MB. This is a huge difference. Here's a demonstration of a very crude attempt to make the file sparse, and a comparison of the 380MB saved: [0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ dpkg --extract /var/cache/apt/archives/libmarc-charset-perl_0.98-2_i386.deb tmp/libmarc-charset-perl [0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cp --sparse=always tmp/libmarc-charset-perl/usr/lib/libmarc-charset-perl/Table.pag{,.sparse} [0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ du -sh tmp/libmarc-charset-perl/usr/lib/libmarc-charset-perl/Table.pag{,.sparse} 391M tmp/libmarc-charset-perl/usr/lib/libmarc-charset-perl/Table.pag 7.7M tmp/libmarc-charset-perl/usr/lib/libmarc-charset-perl/Table.pag.sparse [0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ I don't know how to distribute a file as a sparse file within the .deb framework, but if it's possible, i'd like to learn. Thanks for packaging MARC::Charset for debian! Regards, --dkg - -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages libmarc-charset-perl depends on: ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.31-2 Automated accessor generator ii libxml-sax-perl 0.16+dfsg-3 Perl module for using and building ii perl 5.8.8-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction libmarc-charset-perl recommends no packages. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUBSC2dfMzS7ZTSFznpAQI5cg//ZcXMWXiqN6kL56iG4xlaUj4i3ewr/2Bp x/+zipUglNO3You8ZoiJiaHwPSGluSa0MF8DYTslPsmu/iRXZ9iVHpSLYygT+AGr L6Wk+Dm/32qzO7Vyc1WT0r0va0vDtstYNzNqvsc8hkfOFR1nIl09VxxWYct+OdJk 3cUm15ommNOOz5mrsbzSn7iLysXTWyo+kM+dWLrluVXGqnCzqy2dATGu/3pBY2KE a9+aG9Oyrw35BXq+/eyNGHit08TAhyhPTk0Uqn/nG+BXZ7a6jP90JXO0OL+EPPa4 U7iVAtjxnDQlkCH2mGDgx6+/mKDcATa7RhY50gW89/TMZ8DXsmer9OIrD+tLm2ie 6yewJkrTZZkdNdtZTP9dpT9Ghu/5dMJCHrf716HfEX+Vkb8kYmuIISJmVQpNtKai YGDjERs1GOLCnsxVmMIghZokiPhStU2dTKB4KbOGWxOs+u0aePqyJy6tnYceL7qQ qzndV2jn4YA0IjqsKLm9bfbdoxxnRaK+9qLBeLk4MXkucW5WH7DHd3hRQZ8jntbV nOv1XKJXjwEMHjRQa7w+L5ZSWnGO+88OnJ1+e9NOvL3Q9pedoTMmZpXyj+1tJcfX hNP27iGa1AajSEC5KJ8/hHUxDZYNAjVF/7tbmC1+cM75qcUo2Z5LGRNSP8gzuNzq o3GHWuw2GVs= =dosN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]