Source: lintian Version: 2.5.6 Severity: wishlist I have been considering if it would be a good idea to (conditionally?) compress certain collection files. In some cases they are actually rather large and I suspect compression will generally be good in such cases[1]. Admittedly, there are also cases where it gives little to no size reduction.
Code-wise, we should be able to able this for file-info without any greater hassle than updating L::Collect::Package and coll/file-info. There are still some "ad-hoc" index parsers left in coll/*, but it should be fairly straight forward to fix. However, there has been people doing things like "grep -r $expression" on the lab in the past[2] and compression could break some of these. ~Niels For reference, the size of the lab pool is 16 (13) GB according to du -sh (--apparent-size) [1] $ wc -c < e/eclipse/eclipse_3.7.2-1_source/file-info 4600773 $ gzip --best -c < e/eclipse/eclipse_3.7.2-1_source/file-info | wc -c 277286 $ wc -c < e/eclipse/eclipse_3.7.2-1_source/index 5462164 $ gzip --best -c < e/eclipse/eclipse_3.7.2-1_source/index | wc -c 390669 [2] Such as (but not limited to) the Policy Maintainers :) http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=dbnpolicy/policy.git;a=blob;f=tools/license-count -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
