* Elana Hashman <ehash...@debian.org>, 2021-02-17, 11:06:
Would you be able to research some representative slice of popular
packages that would be affected by the policy change (at least 10) and
share the on-disk sizes with compression vs. without?
Not exactly what you asked Niels for, but...
A few months ago I recompressed whole buster/main/amd64 to see what the
effect of ditching --compress-debug-sections would be.
Raw data for this experiment is available here:
https://github.com/jwilk/lets-shrink-dbgsym/releases/download/20200708/buster-main-amd64-20200708.tsv.xz
The columns are:
* file name
* original .deb size
* recompressed .deb size
* original installed size
* recompressed installed size
Note that some of the .deb size savings might be caused by the fix for
#868674 (for packages that haven't been rebuilt since the fix).
--
Jakub Wilk
