Hi, On Fri, 17 May 2013, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > Per http://dedup.debian.net/compare/publican/publican, publican ships > many copies of common resources (images, CSS files, etc.) under > /usr/share/publican/Common_Content and /usr/share/publican/doc, > accounting for most of its massive size increase from 2.8-3. (It's > gone up from 6.4 MiB to 50.6 MiB.) > > Could you please arrange to ship only one copy of each duplicated > file, at least within /usr/share/publican/Common_Content?
It doesn't look trivial. Each set of language files ought to be self-contained so that any generated document is independant. So replacing with symlinks is not satisfactory (unless we modify the publican build logic to replace symlinks with the corresponding file). Replacing with hardlinks is better but is quite uncommon in Debian packages (there's a lintian warning suggesting it's a bad idea). Last but not least, I'm not going to manually deduplicate all those files so someone should really create a helper script that would deduplicate a sub-directory. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Get the Debian Administrator's Handbook: → http://debian-handbook.info/get/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
