On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 10:35:48AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Helmut Grohne <hel...@subdivi.de> wrote: > > * Packages shipping .md5 and .map files. Even though these files are > > small, there can be very many of them adding up to the installation > > size for filesystems with large block sizes. These files are used for > > incremental recreation of the documentation, so they are completely > > useless in a binary package. A future version of the doxygen package > > will include a dh_doxygen to aid in getting rid of these files. > > Just for clarity, I believe you mean .md5. .map files are very useful > (HTML usemap attribute), see: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=704443
You are correct here. Thanks for pointing out. While digging into this, I also discovered that there are a number of duplicate files, that could be reduced using hard links[1] without much effort. For example, in case of activiz.net-doc[2] 2% of the files can be replaced by hard links. For vtk-doc[3] this amounts to 13% of the files. Other large documentation packages are likely affected in a similar way. The files typically affected are .svg and .map files. Even though this certainly hits small files, this can reduce the installation size measurably (for some filesystems). Helmut [1] http://wiki.debian.org/dedup.debian.net#Within_a_single_binary_package rdfind also support -makehardlinks true [2] http://dedup.debian.net/binary/activiz.net-doc [3] http://dedup.debian.net/binary/vtk-doc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130527101927.ga10...@alf.mars
