On 12/17/17 19:39, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> 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.
>
As a user I would like to ask everyone involved to stick to the 32kB
limit so that we (as in everyone) don't have to fetch megabytes of
patches we'll never use, just because someone was lazy.
