Ping! @list: If you don't know what this email is about, it continues a conversation from last month, which is archived. [1]
I continued on the SVG optimisations, even creating a branch for Scour [2] having additional optimisations for things that I came across while looking at the Scoured SVG files within the LiveCD. The result is more savings on the LiveCD, but the law of diminishing returns kicked in. :) I only saved 90 more KB on SVGs since the last time I wrote about this. However, I also determined that some XML (xmllint) optimisations are safe for the CD: -- Safe optimisation list: Start /usr/lib/bonobo/servers/*.server /usr (recursive) *.glade or *.ui / (recursive) *.svg or *.xsl /usr/lib/openoffice (recursive) *.xcu or *.xcs or *.xlb or *.xba or *.xdl or *.xlc or *.xml or *.odb or *.soc or *.sod or *.soe or *.sog or *.soh /usr/share/gconf/schemas/*.schemas /usr/share/themes (recursive) metacity-theme-*.xml /usr/share/mime (recursive) *.xml /usr/share/gtksourceview-2.0/language-specs/*.lang /usr/share/gtksourceview-2.0/styles/*.xml All %gconf-tree*.xml files -- Safe optimisation list: End At 2010-05-21 21:52 GMT, Dmitrijs Ledkovs <dmitrij.led...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > -- Implementation -- > > 1) Should this go into deb-package mangler run by soyuz? > > 2) Or should this be implemented as debhelper addon / cdbs as no-op > ubuntu-patch and then if successful (all the quirks are worked out) > and pushed to Debian? I have no idea, and would like to defer to the Ubuntu packagers to gather their opinion on this. As I understand, both options would have advantages and drawbacks. * The package mangler would be able to take any package and optimise its files, for immediate savings. However, that doesn't give Debian or upstreams much, and a blanket use of the package mangler could completely break some software. * dh_svgopt, dh_pngopt and dh_xmlopt (proposed names, if you will) would at least give Debian something, and upstreams would be able to include these dh_*'s in their package building rules. Upstreams would make sure that the optimised files work with their software before adding the dh_*'s, or adjust their code so that it does. However, that means a lot of waiting around on some upstreams. Opinions on dh_* versus package mangler? Would I need to code these dh_*'s, or the addition to the package mangler? Should I move this to another mailing list, like ubuntu-devel or debian-devel? Regards, - Louis [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2010-May/thread.html [2] https://code.launchpad.net/~louis-simard/scour/rework -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
