On 2019-02-28 19:19 +0200, Горбешко Богдан wrote: > Package: libgl1-mesa-dri > Version: 18.3.2-1 > Severity: minor > > Dear Maintainer, > > the size reported in the package description (163 MB) is much larger > than it actually appears on the disk (24 MB), because most of the > libraries are sets of hardlinks pointing to same files. Can this be > accounted please, so the description will not be misleading?
Perhaps, but it would have to be done in dpkg-gencontrol which computes the Installed-Size field. Right now it processes each direntry separately which leads to the overestimation. > Or the pessimistic size is shown intentionally for the case of > filesystems that do not support hardlinks? No, dpkg does not work on those anyway[1]. Cheers, Sven 1. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=816881