Hi Martin, I've had my fair struggle with the QA (and still am), but I found the best way is to write an email to Ovi Publisher Support and refer to the app and file revision in question. I would basically copy and paste what you wrote here to them.
Cheers, Sascha On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 15:31, Martin Storsjö <mar...@martin.st> wrote: > Hi, > > I just got my initial Maemo Ovi Store application rejected in QA, and I'd > like discuss the measurements used in the disk space usage requirement. > > The part of the report is this: > > ISSUE #1 SUMMARY: > OPT folder is not 80% more than that of USR folder. > > PRECONDITION: > N/A. > > STEPS: > 1. Open Xterminal, cd MyDocs. > 2. cp <packagename> /home/user/. > 3. cd /home/user/. > 4. mkdir <packagename>-install. > 5. dpkg -x ./<packagename> <packagename>-install. > 6. cd <packagename>-install. > 7. ls. > > EXPECTED OUTCOME: > OPT folder value should be 80% of USR folder. > > ACTUAL OUTCOME: > Opt folder value is not 80% of usr folder ,usr=84,opt=388k. > FREQUENCY OF OCCURRENCE:. > Always. > > > If I do those steps (but do 'du' instead of 'ls' in step 7), I get the > following: > > 376 ./opt/maemo/usr/bin > 380 ./opt/maemo/usr > 384 ./opt/maemo > 388 ./opt > 4 ./usr/sbin > 4 ./usr/bin > 8 ./usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps > 12 ./usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64 > 8 ./usr/share/icons/hicolor/26x26/apps > 12 ./usr/share/icons/hicolor/26x26 > 8 ./usr/share/icons/hicolor/40x40/apps > 12 ./usr/share/icons/hicolor/40x40 > 40 ./usr/share/icons/hicolor > 44 ./usr/share/icons > 8 ./usr/share/doc/<appname> > 12 ./usr/share/doc > 8 ./usr/share/applications/hildon > 12 ./usr/share/applications > 72 ./usr/share > 84 ./usr > 476 . > > According to this, my app is wasting 84 KB of space on /usr. Let's see > what it _really_ does. In practice, it installs three icons in > /usr/share/icons, 751, 1075 and 1570 bytes in size, one 24 byte copyright > file in /usr/share/doc/<appname>, and a 181 .desktop file in > /usr/share/applications. > > Since this is done on /home which is ext3, every directory consumes 4 KB, > too. In practice, if I'd install the package, all those directories > (except the /usr/share/doc/<appname> dir) would exist already, so no disk > space would be consumed for them. > > Optifying them would only help a little - symlinks seem to count as 0 > bytes in this listing, but the number of directories would still add up to > way too much. > > If I try extracting it to e.g. /root instead of /home/user, I get these > numbers instead: > > 368 ./opt/maemo/usr/bin > 368 ./opt/maemo/usr > 368 ./opt/maemo > 368 ./opt > 0 ./usr/bin > 0 ./usr/sbin > 4 ./usr/share/doc/<appname> > 4 ./usr/share/doc > 4 ./usr/share/applications/hildon > 4 ./usr/share/applications > 4 ./usr/share/icons/hicolor/26x26/apps > 4 ./usr/share/icons/hicolor/26x26 > 4 ./usr/share/icons/hicolor/40x40/apps > 4 ./usr/share/icons/hicolor/40x40 > 4 ./usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps > 4 ./usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64 > 12 ./usr/share/icons/hicolor > 12 ./usr/share/icons > 20 ./usr/share > 20 ./usr > 388 . > > On this file system, directories themselves don't seem to add up to the > total, and my application would pass the test. > > So, what's the proper way of dealing with all this nonsense? Should I stop > shipping properly sized icons with my app? Or just stuff in a 1 MB "data" > file (read from /dev/urandom) under /opt to make the percentages right? > > Also, is there any idea in trying to discuss these issues in Ovi Publish > by commenting back? On Ovi/Symbian things, I've never ever seen a reviewer > actually take my comments in account, so I don't think anybody ever reads > the comments the submitter writes. > > // Martin > _______________________________________________ > maemo-developers mailing list > maemo-developers@maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers >
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