Hi,

Am 25.09.2014 um 21:57 schrieb Jörg Frings-Fürst:
> Am Donnerstag, den 25.09.2014, 18:45 +0200 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> [...]
>> The following packages will be upgraded:
>>   argyll
>> 1 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
>> Need to get 5979 kB of archives.
>> After this operation, 50.2 MB of additional disk space will be used.

This is about installed package size.

>>
>> The old (1.5.x) argyll package was already weighing 7M, but this is
>> almost a tenfold increase in size.
>>
>> Please investigate what's going wrong there.
> [...]
> 
> I have just build the old (1.5.1-8) and the new (1.6.3-2) release.
> 
> The packed size are:
> 
> ls -lh
> insgesamt 8,7M
> -rw-r--r-- 1 jff jff 3,4M Sep 25 19:14 argyll_1.5.1-8_amd64.deb
> -rw-r--r-- 1 jff jff 4,6M Sep 25 19:14 argyll-dbg_1.5.1-8_amd64.deb
> -rw-r--r-- 1 jff jff  79K Sep 25 19:14 icc-utils_1.5.1-8_amd64.deb
> -rw-r--r-- 1 jff jff 169K Sep 25 19:14 libicc2_2.12+argyll1.5.1-8_amd64.deb
> -rw-r--r-- 1 jff jff  93K Sep 25 19:14 libicc-dev_2.12+argyll1.5.1-8_amd64.deb
> -rw-r--r-- 1 jff jff 369K Sep 25 19:14 libimdi0_1.5.1-8_amd64.deb
> -rw-r--r-- 1 jff jff  78K Sep 25 19:14 libimdi-dev_1.5.1-8_amd64.deb
> 
> 
> ls -lh
> insgesamt 31M
> -rw-r--r-- 1 jff jff 2,9M Sep 25 14:32 argyll_1.6.3-2_amd64.deb
> -rw-r--r-- 1 jff jff  26M Sep 25 14:32 argyll-dbg_1.6.3-2_amd64.deb
> -rw-r--r-- 1 jff jff 2,3M Sep 25 14:32 argyll-doc_1.6.3-2_all.deb
> -rw-r--r-- 1 jff jff 132K Sep 25 14:32 argyll-ref_1.6.3-2_all.deb
> -rw-r--r-- 1 jff jff 1,6K Sep 25 14:32 icc-utils_1.6.3-2_all.deb
> 
> 
> Without *-dbg are the sums 4.1M vs. 5M. The biggest increment comes from
> the dbg files. 

You are comparing the package sizes here, not the installed package size.

> I build the programs with the gcc parameter -g. So I have a lot of more
> infos in the dbg files. I think that's ok.

Look at https://packages.debian.org/sid/argyll

and compare the installed package size of 1.5 and 1.6

for amd64 (1.6.3-1):
package size:   3,418.3 kB installed size: 52,195.0 kB

for i386 (1.5)
package size: 3,414.2 kB installed size: 7,490.0 kB



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