Am Sun, 17 Dec 2017 13:40:35 -0500 schrieb Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org>:
> On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 1:39 PM, Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> > wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 8:21 AM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> > > wrote: > >> Hello, everyone. > >> > >> It's my pleasure to announce that with a majority vote the QA team > >> has accepted a new policy. The accepted wording is: > >> > >> Total size of 'files' subdirectory of a package should not be > >> larger than 32 KiB. If the package needs more auxiliary files, > >> they should be put into SRC_URI e.g. via tarballs. > >> > >> (the total size being computed as a sum of apparent file sizes) > >> > >> The relevant policy vote is finishing at bug #633758 [1]. The CI > >> reports [2] were updated to report packages whose 'files' > >> directories exceed 64 KiB, to avoid adding many new warnings at > >> once. The limit will be lowered down to 32 KiB as packages are > >> fixed to comply with the new policy. > >> > >> At the same time, I would like to explicitly remind developers that > >> the spirit of the policy is 'do not let "files" grow large', not > >> 'make sure you're one byte less than 32769.' Do not argue that > >> your package exceeds the limit only by few bytes -- even if it > >> gets close to the limit, then it means it's way too large. > > > > I just want to voice my opinion on this: as a developer, this policy > > is a royal pain in the ass. > > > > I would ask the council to please increase this limit to at least > > 100 KiB, preferably more. > > Please substitute "QA team" for "council" in the above message. > Thanks. > I second this request for the exact same reason. Lars
