Package: perl-base Version: 5.32.1-4+deb11u2 Severity: minor X-Debbugs-Cc: report...@plan9.de
Dear Maintainer, I recently installed a fresh bullseye and ran jdupes to deduplicate files. To my surprise, this reduced the installed size (on a zstd-compressed btrfs filesystem) from 2GB to 1.3GB. This was rather unexpected and I investigated. One of the larger reasons for this size reduction is a large number of relatively large files that are identical in perl-modules-5.32 and perl-base, random example: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1466 Sep 24 2021 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl-base/unicore/lib/Lb/CL.pl -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1466 Sep 24 2021 /usr/share/perl/5.32.1/unicore/lib/Lb/CL.pl I wonder if thid duplication is intended, and if yes, maybe hardlinks should be used to save space. -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-19-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads) Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages perl-base depends on: ii dpkg 1.20.12 ii libc6 2.31-13+deb11u5 ii libcrypt1 1:4.4.18-4 perl-base recommends no packages. Versions of packages perl-base suggests: ii perl 5.32.1-4+deb11u2 ii sensible-utils 0.0.14 -- no debconf information
