Control: tags -1 upstream confirmed Control: severity -1 wishlist Control: reassign -1 src:wireshark
Hi Matt, On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 12:51 AM Matt Taggart <tagg...@debian.org> wrote: > > Package: libwireshark11 > Version: 2.6.8-1.1 > Severity: normal > > Is it normal for libwireshark.so.11.1.8 to be almost 80MB? It's by far > the largest library on my system. The next largest is libLLVM-7.so.1 at > 58MB, and then some other toolkit and compiler libs below 50MB and then > it drops off quickly with 99% of system libraries being under 1MB. > strip(1) doesn't seem to reduce it, but maybe there is some bloat in > there that's not supposed to be? It contains dissectors for many protocols and also a good part of the dissectors' code is autogenerated. The situation is known by upstream [1] and it may be worth taking a new look. Cheers, Balint [1] https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/200911/msg00004.html
