This isn't about the deb size, but about the size as extracted on the system. Especially headers will most likely compress really well into the deb.
Comparing the latest 5.19 with the recent 6.2 [1][2] that got through propose migration we can see the increase just fine. debsizes as downloaded and sizes as extracted on disk (just dpkg -x, you do not need a system to install): [I'm sure LP display will break this, looks reasonable in monospace) - [5] is a public gspread of the same content. 5.19-deb 6.2-deb increase 5.19-extract 6.2-extract increase name 163560 407486 149.14% 805888 1188856 47.52% linux-buildinfo 2909154 16637576 471.90% 25134419 110300530 338.84% linux-headers 7342272 8888512 21.06% 7341452 8890656 21.10% linux-image-unsigned 197923488 213022492 7.63% 1190567058 1294452144 8.73% linux-image-unsigned-dbgsym 12582164 13126606 4.33% 81571446 84147433 3.16% linux-kvm-headers 7890812 7575524 -4.00% 27081556 26699145 -1.41% linux-kvm-tools 15549556 17799166 14.47% 78035966 89312382 14.45% linux-modules 1756 1758 0.11% 34409 34401 -0.02% linux-tools Further [3][4] show that this isn't specific to the -kvm kernel. It is in the generic kernel as well. New code might have more modules, so while it is quite a lot and we need to ask ourself if anything could be done it might be a necessary step. But the sources, they have grown so much and are default installed. The bump to default image size is quite much IMHO - enough to discuss about it here at least. [1]: https://launchpad.net/~canonical-kernel-security-team/+archive/ubuntu/devel/+build/24551183 [2]: https://launchpad.net/~canonical-kernel-team/+archive/ubuntu/bootstrap/+build/25964206 [3]: https://launchpad.net/~canonical-kernel-security-team/+archive/ubuntu/devel/+build/24547812 [4]: https://launchpad.net/~canonical-kernel-team/+archive/ubuntu/bootstrap/+build/25964139 [5]: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hJ3cQpwDJ-NCcGTZfZD2zX7tpq8XRhIifYtnZL29sVU -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2015867 Title: Kernel 6.1 bumped the disk consumption on default images by 15% Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Hi, in the regular monitoring of metrics there was a bump in disk size last week. The default image once installed consumes now 994 (formerly 859) megabytes. Looking at the consumers there was much noise, but the biggest change was linux-headers-5.19.0-1008-kvm 25197 -> linux-headers-6.2.0-1002-kvm 108072 linux-modules-5.19.0-1008-kvm 76090 -> linux-modules-6.2.0-1002-kvm 97221 I haven't looked deeper yet. Is that an accident and will be fixed soon, is that a change we can do nothing about, anything in between? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/2015867/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
