Bug#975261: diffoscope: install footprint is 2.6GB, please move some recommends to suggests

2020-11-20 Thread Chris Lamb
Holger Levsen wrote: > maybe this can be solved by having two (or three) diffoscope packages: One thing I would like to ensure that we do not cause a reduction in functionality for some extremely prevalent use-cases. I'm not just thinking of end-users here: in fact, I am thinking of various

Bug#975261: diffoscope: install footprint is 2.6GB, please move some recommends to suggests

2020-11-20 Thread Holger Levsen
On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 11:45:43AM +0100, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > > - diffoscope-full with the packages as recommends > I reckon this "type" should stay named "diffoscope", what it currently > is. So current users still get what they currently get. agreed, that's better. -- cheers,

Bug#975261: diffoscope: install footprint is 2.6GB, please move some recommends to suggests

2020-11-20 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 09:31:55AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 06:35:11PM +, Ximin Luo wrote: > > I have managed to figure out that by moving the following Recommends to > > Suggests one can cut the footprint from 2.6GB to about 64MB which is much > > more > >

Bug#975261: diffoscope: install footprint is 2.6GB, please move some recommends to suggests

2020-11-20 Thread Holger Levsen
On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 06:35:11PM +, Ximin Luo wrote: > I have managed to figure out that by moving the following Recommends to > Suggests one can cut the footprint from 2.6GB to about 64MB which is much more > reasonable. Therefore please do that. These are ordered roughly by size: maybe

Bug#975261: diffoscope: install footprint is 2.6GB, please move some recommends to suggests

2020-11-19 Thread Ximin Luo
Package: diffoscope Version: 161 Severity: important File: diffoscope Dear Maintainer, The size of diffoscope is getting really quite ridiculous, all the recommends now come to ~2.6 GB installed size, even though they are not used in the vast majority of use cases. Not only is the disk space