Bug#976136: size stats

[Barak A. Pearlmutter]

Sure! It was the minorest of wishes. More of a rueful comment on how
claims of small size don't tend to age well in computing. This one's
aged better than most, I suppose...

Bug#976136: size stats

[Graham Inggs]

Hi Barak

Thanks for the bug report!

On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 at 11:24, Barak A. Pearlmutter
 wrote:
> Severity: wishlist

It's hard to tell what you are actually wishing for here.  A patch or
a merge request would help greatly.

> $ apt show yabasic|egrep -i size
> Installed-Size: 947 kB
> Download-Size: 263 kB
>
> $ apt show yabasic|egrep '[0-9]+ *KB'
>  it is small (less than 200 KB) and free.

It looks like the package description was last updated 15 years ago [1].
We could replace it with the current text from upstream's homepage [2]:

Yabasic is a traditional basic-interpreter. It comes with goto and
various loops and allows to define subroutines and libraries. It does
simple graphics and printing. Yabasic can call out to libraries
written in C and allows to create standalone programs. Yabasic runs
under Unix and Windows and has a comprehensive documentation; it is
small, simple, open-source and free.

Would this fulfil your wish? :)

Regards
Graham


[1] 
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/yabasic/-/commit/9e08e5b67f06b180d31812874fb569f99891e684
[2] http://www.yabasic.de/

Bug#976136: size stats

[Barak A. Pearlmutter]

Package: yabasic
Version: 1:2.87.1-1
Severity: wishlist

$ apt show yabasic|egrep -i size
Installed-Size: 947 kB
Download-Size: 263 kB

$ apt show yabasic|egrep '[0-9]+ *KB'
 it is small (less than 200 KB) and free.

$ cat < /usr/bin/yabasic | wc -c
297192

$ cat < /usr/share/doc/yabasic/yabasic.htm | wc -c
548346

$ gzip -9 < /usr/share/doc/yabasic/yabasic.htm | wc -c
100934

$ xz < /usr/share/doc/yabasic/yabasic.htm | wc -c
77868