Sven Rudolph wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What can explain this 72kb difference in size? > > I suppose the original packages tar file ontains the documentation > files uncompressed whereas the .deb package installs these files as > compressed. > > So they are compressed in one gzip run in the .tar.gz, whereas in the > .deb case all files are compressed individually and then compressed > again by dpkg --build. This makes the overall compression less > efficient. >
I also experienced a 10% increase of the size in the manpages-it package. I was wandering if I could package the man pages uncompressed and compress them in debian/rules during installation. This would create a dependency to gzip package, but I think that this already exists when we package the pages zipped! Is it possible that a debian system be without gzip? ciao Fabrizio -- +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://megabaud.fi/~fpolacco/ Join the UKI Linux Project! | | fingerprint 70 1A 72 2D 2B C8 A5 63 7A C2 CC E0 2A 54 AE DA | | finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +-------------------------------------------------------------+
