Package: fluid-soundfont Version: 3.1-4 Severity: normal While upgrading from 3.1-2 it reported it would free 73.4MB. I checked with df, out of curiosity as it was a rather huge change, and real change was minimal. Uninstalling (with purge) said it would free 78.4MB, and I decided to check again with same results, minimal space recovered.
I investigated a bit what was going on. The new "compress with flac" maybe be nice to reduce downloads, but it causes disk usage reporting to be really off and leaves two huge files: ---8<--- ls -l /usr/share/sounds/sf2/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 148398306 Dec 12 05:09 FluidR3_GM.sf2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3201926 Dec 12 05:09 FluidR3_GS.sf2 --->8--- A diff of ~75M of reported vs real usage is a number important for apt-get's space checks that abort an install before leaving the system in bad state for lack of free space, and leaving those huge files without md5 info and totally orphan (dpkg knows nothing) is not very nice. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
