[2018-10-05 00:50] Jonas Smedegaard <jo...@jones.dk> > Quoting John MacFarlane (2018-10-04 19:58:54) > > Jonas Smedegaard <jo...@jones.dk> 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 consume 5 x the disk space of the parts > > > reused among them.
We could generate packages with compressed binaries in a way, similar to *-dbg packages. All compiled languages, except C (Go, Rust, Haskell) would benefit, but it is quite a bit of work -- changes to debhelper and reprorepo, at least.