On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 1:39 PM, Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 8:21 AM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> Hello, everyone. >> >> It's my pleasure to announce that with a majority vote the QA team has >> accepted a new policy. The accepted wording is: >> >> Total size of 'files' subdirectory of a package should not be larger >> than 32 KiB. If the package needs more auxiliary files, they should >> be put into SRC_URI e.g. via tarballs. >> >> (the total size being computed as a sum of apparent file sizes) >> >> The relevant policy vote is finishing at bug #633758 [1]. The CI reports >> [2] were updated to report packages whose 'files' directories exceed >> 64 KiB, to avoid adding many new warnings at once. The limit will >> be lowered down to 32 KiB as packages are fixed to comply with the new >> policy. >> >> At the same time, I would like to explicitly remind developers that >> the spirit of the policy is 'do not let "files" grow large', not 'make >> sure you're one byte less than 32769.' Do not argue that your package >> exceeds the limit only by few bytes -- even if it gets close to the >> limit, then it means it's way too large. > > I just want to voice my opinion on this: as a developer, this policy > is a royal pain in the ass. > > I would ask the council to please increase this limit to at least 100 > KiB, preferably more.
Please substitute "QA team" for "council" in the above message. Thanks.
