Bug#910280: pandoc: Please reduce the binary size

2018-10-04 Thread KAction
[2018-10-05 00:50] Jonas Smedegaard > Quoting John MacFarlane (2018-10-04 19:58:54) > > Jonas Smedegaard writes: > > > > > The proper solution here, I guess (but am not expert in Haskell so > > > may be wrong) is to switch to using shared linking, so that 5 > > > Haskell binaries will not

Bug#910280: pandoc: Please reduce the binary size

2018-10-04 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Control: tag -1 wontfix Hi Горбешко, Quoting Горбешко Богдан (2018-10-04 13:02:59) > the pandoc binary is extremely large. It's the largest file in my > /usr/bin, exceeding even blender's binary in almost 2 times. > > From my experience, ghc is not good at making small binaries, and > even

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2018-10-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > tag -1 wontfix Bug #910280 [pandoc] pandoc: Please reduce the binary size Added tag(s) wontfix. -- 910280: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=910280 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems

Bug#910280: pandoc: Please reduce the binary size

2018-10-04 Thread John MacFarlane
I'm happy to leave this issue up to the Debian maintainer, since the upx compression would need to be done in the packaging process and doesn't involve upstream. I tested upx compression (with --best --ultra-brute) on macOS. Time for 'pandoc --version' went from 0.031s without compression to

Bug#910280: pandoc: Please reduce the binary size

2018-10-04 Thread Горбешко Богдан
Package: pandoc Version: 2.2.1-2 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, the pandoc binary is extremely large. It's the largest file in my /usr/bin, exceeding even blender's binary in almost 2 times. From my experience, ghc is not good at making small binaries, and even stripping doesn't do