** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => In Progress
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1742653
Title:
chromium-browser 63+ packages 50+ MB of binaries only needed at build
time
Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu:
In Progress
Bug description:
As mentioned in [1], it seems like the chromium-browser package might
be, since Chromium 63, packaging a new and pretty big (44MB) binary
that is not needed at run time, just at build time.
This binary is `/usr/lib/chromium-browser/v8_context_snapshot_generator`,
which is at the moment being packaged (see file list for bionic in [2]) in the
chromium-browser package along with the 1MB related binary that is the only one
that should be included in the package:
```
$ ls -ltrh /usr/lib/chromium-browser/v8_context_snapshot*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 44M Jan 9 18:21
/usr/lib/chromium-browser/v8_context_snapshot_generator
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.6M Jan 9 18:21
/usr/lib/chromium-browser/v8_context_snapshot.bin
```
This can become a big deal in space-constrained installations, of
course, but considering that the installed size of the package is
~260MB, this binary alone accounts for ~16% of the package's size, so
it would be good to clean that up from the package if possible.
[1]
https://askubuntu.com/questions/986031/why-is-chromium-browser-63-so-much-bigger-than-62/986132
[2] https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/amd64/chromium-browser/filelist
[3]
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jpQQX0piaxcHJPWakp_Kr_03g5Gnma5h5-Kdlqu7jVQ/edit#heading=h.k6iklq6rvd30
To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1742653/+subscriptions
--
Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages
Post to : [email protected]
Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages
More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
