Re: Planned NMU of w3-recs would use much archive disk space

2016-10-28 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 08:41:12AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >... > That said, Thaddeus, if you do go ahead with the upload please check if > you can minimize that size somehow, even just a 10% drop in size would > already be worth the work it took for something big like this. >...

Re: Planned NMU of w3-recs would use much archive disk space

2016-10-27 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 08:41:12AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > so I'd say go ahead even if it is 200GiB. That would be pretty amazing. It's 200MiB, of course, as you and Paul note. > That said, Thaddeus, if you do go ahead with the upload please check if > you can minimize that s

Re: Planned NMU of w3-recs would use much archive disk space

2016-10-27 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
This reply responds to the messages of Marco d'Itri and Paul Wise. Summary: the package w3-recs provides the standards by which web pages are developed; its compressed source would be about 200 MiB in size. On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 09:50:28AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > What is the purpose of th

Re: Planned NMU of w3-recs would use much archive disk space

2016-10-27 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 27 Oct 2016, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Oct 27, "Thaddeus H. Black" wrote: > > Unfortunately, without an NMU, this package would not be very > > useful to stretch users. > > > > I'd do what I could to trim the size, but this NMU will be big > > no matter what I do. > > > > Advice? Objecti

Re: Planned NMU of w3-recs would use much archive disk space

2016-10-27 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 27, "Thaddeus H. Black" wrote: > Unfortunately, without an NMU, this package would not be very > useful to stretch users. > > I'd do what I could to trim the size, but this NMU will be big > no matter what I do. > > Advice? Objections? What is the purpose of this package? -- ciao, Mar

Re: Planned NMU of w3-recs would use much archive disk space

2016-10-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 8:16 AM, Thaddeus H. Black wrote: > I am moving [1] to NMU a big non-free package, w3-recs [2][3], > last updated five years ago. During the last five years, > upstream has grown, both in volume [4] and in scope [5], for > legitimate reasons. The new *.orig.tar.gz or *.or

Planned NMU of w3-recs would use much archive disk space

2016-10-26 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
I am moving [1] to NMU a big non-free package, w3-recs [2][3], last updated five years ago. During the last five years, upstream has grown, both in volume [4] and in scope [5], for legitimate reasons. The new *.orig.tar.gz or *.orig.tar.xz would be about 200 GiB in size, six times what it is now.