On Tue, 06 Sep 2011, Russ Allbery wrote: > Lars Wirzenius <l...@liw.fi> writes: > > > Would one of the following work? > > > 1. Merge perl and perl-modules. Some waste across architectures in the > > archive, but not horribly much. > > This is probably the simplest solution conceptually and in terms of tool > changes required, but the Perl maintainers weren't very fond of it the > last few times it's been proposed.
If the size is the issue, then switching to XZ mitigates a bit the problem, I repacked's perl-modules's data.tar.gz and here are the sizes: $ ls -l data.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 rhertzog rhertzog 4766912 7 sept. 08:15 data.tar.gz $ ls -al data.tar.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 rhertzog rhertzog 3165408 7 sept. 08:15 data.tar.xz So it's about 3 Mb per arch that are lost instead of almost 5 Mb per arch (and this is with xz -6). Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110907062146.gh8...@rivendell.home.ouaza.com