Hello, It's mostly because of the images and the search capabilities. What follows is an explanation of the growth but I cannot come with a good solution to shrink the size.
* Images: As ACE < 5.6.3-6 did not include graphviz as a dependency, images were not being generated and the docs were image-less. You are right there is no notice of the addition of graphviz as a build-depends in the changelog of 5.6.3-6 (there is in the changelog for 5.7.4/5.7.5, in trunk, but I forgot to add that to 5.6.3-6). In libace-doc, the .png images account for 50% of the installed size (112 MB of 225 MB) In libtao-doc, the .png images account for 40% of the installed size ( 450 MB of 1.2GB ) For some images (most of them), an additional HTML page is generated. * Search: Doxygen is generating a search engine for all the docs. This is enabled in ACE 5.6.3 (SEARCHENGINE = yes in the .doxygen files). I don't know why this was not being generated for ACE 5.6.3-5. Why researching the growth in installed size, I've noticed search is not working because the search.js files were compressed by debhelper: ./ace-6/usr/share/doc/libace-doc/rmcast/search/search.js.gz ./ace-6/usr/share/doc/libace-doc/search/search.js.gz ./ace-6/usr/share/doc/libace-doc/QoS/search/search.js.gz ./ace-6/usr/share/doc/libace-doc/ssl/search/search.js.gz We should exclude .js from dh_compress On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> wrote: > Package: libtao-doc > Version: 5.6.3-6 > > In version 5.6.3-6, libtao-doc grew by a factor of >50, to 519MB. > libace-doc got quite a bit bigger too. Isn't this a bit excessive? I > imagine lots of this is autogenerated, but 29 times bigger than the > upstream tarball seems a bit much. > > I started rebuilding my local Debian mirror last night, and it seems to > have taken most of the night just downloading libtao-doc; given the > former size of the package and the fact that there's no indication of a > change of this magnitude in the changelog, it looks as though it may be > a mistake. Packages this big tend not to be very useful anyway because > many people will just uninstall them rather than having to upgrade them. -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
