On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 8:21 AM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Hello, everyone. > > It's my pleasure to announce that with a majority vote the QA team has > accepted a new policy. The accepted wording is: > > Total size of 'files' subdirectory of a package should not be larger > than 32 KiB. If the package needs more auxiliary files, they should > be put into SRC_URI e.g. via tarballs. > > (the total size being computed as a sum of apparent file sizes) > > The relevant policy vote is finishing at bug #633758 [1]. The CI reports > [2] were updated to report packages whose 'files' directories exceed > 64 KiB, to avoid adding many new warnings at once. The limit will > be lowered down to 32 KiB as packages are fixed to comply with the new > policy. > > At the same time, I would like to explicitly remind developers that > the spirit of the policy is 'do not let "files" grow large', not 'make > sure you're one byte less than 32769.' Do not argue that your package > exceeds the limit only by few bytes -- even if it gets close to the > limit, then it means it's way too large.
I just want to voice my opinion on this: as a developer, this policy is a royal pain in the ass. I would ask the council to please increase this limit to at least 100 KiB, preferably more.
