Package: debian-cd Version: 3.1.5 Severity: minor The squeeze release DVDs for source demonstrate this problem well:
$ ls -altr iso/debian-6.0.0-source-DVD-*iso -rw-r--r-- 1 steve users 4669829120 2011-02-16 22:16 iso/debian-6.0.0-source-DVD-1.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 steve users 4676808704 2011-02-16 22:20 iso/debian-6.0.0-source-DVD-2.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 steve users 3917697024 2011-02-16 22:23 iso/debian-6.0.0-source-DVD-3.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 steve users 4671989760 2011-02-16 22:26 iso/debian-6.0.0-source-DVD-4.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 steve users 4698984448 2011-02-16 22:30 iso/debian-6.0.0-source-DVD-5.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 steve users 196368384 2011-02-16 22:30 iso/debian-6.0.0-source-DVD-6.iso DVD #6 is tiny (less than 200MB), yet there's ~700MB of spare space on DVD #3. The cause is easy to identify: the massive nexuiz-data source package won't fit in the remaining space on DVD #3 so it triggers us to start a new disc. That's OK-ish, but wasteful. For binary discs, we want to keep packages in dependency order so we *don't* shuffle things, but for source discs it really doesn't matter at all. At the moment we're just filling them in alphabetical order (for want of anything better), and we could do better in terms of filling discs. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Is there anybody out there? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
