Hi Graham. On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 01:06:38PM +0200, Graham Inggs wrote: > Ultimately, the decision lies with ftpmaster whether this package > will be accepted, and they will ask 'Is there a valid reason to > provide a new binary package?', see 'Checks for new binary packages' > [2].
thanks for these references. to keep it simple, i don't know what to do. upstream partitions their work, it seems reasonable, and i can't think of a better way. my expectation is, that a reverse dependency will actually only require a tiny fraction of the whole. lets fetch some numbers (please order more numbers, if you can think of relevant ones). $ ls libtrilinos-*12.2.1*.deb | wc -l 90 $ du -s libtrilinos-*12.2.1*.deb | cut -f1 -d' ' | sort -h | tail -n 10 912 924 1064 1096 1376 1568 1944 2644 2960 7596 $ for i in libtrilinos-*12.2.1*.deb; do dpkg -I $i | grep Installed-Size | \ cut -d' ' -f3 ; done | sort -h | tail -n 10 4865 4913 5005 7171 7566 10682 12912 19051 20403 47295 # <= I guess, this means 47MB for comparison (to get an idea, i do not claim an analogy). $ apt-cache search python | grep ^python | wc -l 3965 $ apt-cache search ruby | grep ^ruby- | wc -l 910 $ apt-cache search r-cran | grep ^r-cran | wc -l 279 $ apt-cache search boost | grep ^libboo | wc -l 153 hth felix
