Thank you very much for the info, no problem with the split. Till
On 01/08/2014 01:33 PM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Hi Till, > > Thanks for rising this question. > > Le mercredi, 8 janvier 2014, 12.42:04 Till Kamppeter a écrit : >> OdyX, you have split foo2zjs into printer-driver-foo2zjs and >> printer-driver-foo2zjs-common telling that you want all >> arch-independent files being shared across architectures. This saves >> some disk space in the build server infrastructure (there should be >> plenty of disk space) > > This was triggered by the arch-dep-package-has-big-usr-share lintian > informational tag: > > http://lintian.debian.org/tags/arch-dep-package-has-big-usr-share.html > > Where it saves the most is on the mirrors, especially on Debian, as we > currently have 13 architectures. The saving (although not huge) is of > ~400 kB per package, for a new package of ~520 kB, altogether a ~4.6Mb > saving. > > I agree it's not immense, but it's a small move in the direction of > containing the continuous archive grow. > > (Also, it's probably worth mentioning that this change went through the > NEW queue, so the FTP-Masters had to acknowledge that change…) > >> and on the user side it is probably without any benefit as nowadays no >> one shares a system disk partition between several computers (which >> can be of different architectures). > > Well, it's without downsides either as far as I can tell, no? The update > should be fully transparent for all users, no? > >> So for me it looks like that it makes building and updating more >> complicated without real benefit. Or what are the real advantages? > > Well, I can agree that src:foo2zjs became a little more complicated to > maintain, but it's really not a burden, as far as I'm concerned… (Fixing > the manpages or the build-system were way more cumbersome to do fwiw.) > > That said, if you have serious reasons to revert that, I'd happily hear > them… > > Cheers, > > OdyX > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
