Bug#738508: python-coverage: Please split shared files into an arch:all package

2014-02-12 Thread Ben Finney
tags 738508 + wontfix thanks On 12-Feb-2014, Dmitry Shachnev wrote: So feel free to close this bug. I should really have done this calculation before filing this bug. No problem, thank you. For future readers of this bug report: I am open to the possibility that some future ‘python-coverage’

Bug#738508: python-coverage: Please split shared files into an arch:all package

2014-02-11 Thread Dmitry Shachnev
Hi Ben, Thank you for filing this at “wishlist” severity. What do you think this amount of storage is worth a new package? Bear in mind that new packages also require an additional overhead of storage. Currently I'm inclined to leave these files in the packages, until there is at least an

Bug#738508: python-coverage: Please split shared files into an arch:all package

2014-02-10 Thread Ben Finney
On 10-Feb-2014, Dmitry Shachnev wrote: Currently python-coverage and python3-coverage ship some files in: - /usr/share/python-coverage/htmlfiles - /usr/share/python3-coverage/htmlfiles Currently those files occupy less than 25KiB, in 6 files. It looks to me that those files are identical,

Bug#738508: python-coverage: Please split shared files into an arch:all package

2014-02-09 Thread Dmitry Shachnev
Source: python-coverage Version: 3.7+dfsg.1-4 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, Currently python-coverage and python3-coverage ship some files in: - /usr/share/python-coverage/htmlfiles - /usr/share/python3-coverage/htmlfiles It looks to me that those files are identical, so it is a waste of