Bug#364385: localechooser almost tripled in size...
Breakdown on size increase since 1.03 is: - 30k added to templates file - 1k added to /usr/bin/localechooser - 1k added to /usr/lib/post-base-installer.d/05localechooser - 1k removed from languagelist I don't see how this could sum to the 230k indicated by what you pasted though. In 1.06, I introduced a bug when I removed the crafted intltool-merge which allowed partial translations for country names. I unfortunately ommited the document this properly because it was discovered while working on something else (beat me) but then it got fixed and localechooser got the country names translations back...and its huge size back In the meantime, some languages were added, which explains the templates file size increase noticed by Joey. Of course, the size of this templates file is a problem but I fail to see how to do differently if we want to have the country names translated. The scripts in localechooser are heavily commented. One way to grab some bytes back could be filtering these comments during the package build. This would of course make debugging a little more complicated when working in the installer itself but that could be worth it. This saves about 5k in /usr/bin/localechooser signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#364385: localechooser almost tripled in size...
A check against an older image shows that the main culprit is localechooser: 108758 B - 136 blocks - 10 files from localechooser.udeb (version 1.06) 344544 B - 360 blocks - 10 files from localechooser.udeb (version 1.12) Is it possible to bring that down again a bit please? Don't we already drop translations in floppy builds. Which means that the main culprit, ie the templates file, should be shorten down. -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#364385: localechooser almost tripled in size...
Package: localechooser Version: 1.12 Severity: important On IRC someone mentioned that the PPC root floppy image was too large. A check against an older image shows that the main culprit is localechooser: 108758 B - 136 blocks - 10 files from localechooser.udeb (version 1.06) 344544 B - 360 blocks - 10 files from localechooser.udeb (version 1.12) Is it possible to bring that down again a bit please? pgp252YPykuZ6.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#364385: localechooser almost tripled in size...
Frans Pop wrote: On IRC someone mentioned that the PPC root floppy image was too large. A check against an older image shows that the main culprit is localechooser: 108758 B - 136 blocks - 10 files from localechooser.udeb (version 1.06) 344544 B - 360 blocks - 10 files from localechooser.udeb (version 1.12) Is it possible to bring that down again a bit please? Breakdown on size increase since 1.03 is: - 30k added to templates file - 1k added to /usr/bin/localechooser - 1k added to /usr/lib/post-base-installer.d/05localechooser - 1k removed from languagelist I don't see how this could sum to the 230k indicated by what you pasted though. The debian-installer/fallbacklocale question is internal use only, it's never shown to the user AFAICS, so I made it not translated and this saved 10k. 226k are used to store translated country names and that's IMHO the main thing that needs to be fixed in localechooser's size. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature
