Bug#233355: marked as done (Inefficient packaging of arch independent data in package gedit)

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Subject: Inefficient packaging of arch independent data in package gedit
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From: Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
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Package: gedit
Version: 2.4.1-1
Severity: normal

This is a semi-automated bug report based on scanning the contents of
binary .deb files in the unstable Debian archive.

The gedit packages seem to contain a very large amount of
architecture-independent data in architecture-dependent packages,
specifically data installed under /usr/share. This is wasteful of
mirror space and bandwidth, as we then end up with multiple copies of
this data, one for each architecture. Initial estimates suggest that
several gigabytes of Debian archive space may currently be wasted
because of packages like this.

The way to fix this depends on the layout of your package:

  * Some packages need to have a -common or -doc package split out to
    contain this common data, and the existing packages that need this
    data should then be altered to depend on the new -common or -doc
    package.

  * This package may already be such a -common or -doc package, in
    which case it probably should already be marked as Architecture:
    all in your debian/control file rather than Architecture: any .

  * Maybe the files under /usr/share do not belong there - several
    packages seem to contain data in /usr/share that is definitely
    architecture-dependent. In this case, please move the files into
    the right place.

Policy is quite clear on this point:

http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices#s-bpp-archindepdata

The usage of these packages is currently:
 debsize pkgsize /usr/share %  filename
 1608486   5704        4064 71 pool/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.4.1-1_alpha.deb
 1546110   5384        4064 75 pool/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.4.1-1_arm.deb
 1589704   5528        4064 73 pool/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.4.1-1_hppa.deb
 1555736   5420        4064 74 pool/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.4.1-1_i386.deb
 1661828   6024        4064 67 pool/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.4.1-1_ia64.deb
 1541220   5368        4064 75 pool/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.4.1-1_m68k.deb
 1540440   5736        4064 70 pool/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.4.1-1_mips.deb
 1539968   5736        4064 70 pool/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.4.1-1_mipsel.deb
 1555948   5440        4064 74 pool/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.4.1-1_powerpc.deb
 1575486   5520        4064 73 pool/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.4.1-1_s390.deb
 1548018   5412        4064 75 pool/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.4.1-1_sparc.deb

Please split this package appropriately. If you believe your package
is already split reasonably, then sorry for bothering you. If you wish
to discuss this further, please feel free to reply to this bug. If you
agree that there's a problem here but need help to fix it: again, feel
free to ask...

Thanks,
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com

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Source: gedit
Source-Version: 2.6.0-3

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
gedit, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

gedit-common_2.6.0-3_all.deb
  to pool/main/g/gedit/gedit-common_2.6.0-3_all.deb
gedit_2.6.0-3.diff.gz
  to pool/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.6.0-3.diff.gz
gedit_2.6.0-3.dsc
  to pool/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.6.0-3.dsc
gedit_2.6.0-3_i386.deb
  to pool/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.6.0-3_i386.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 233355@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
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Sebastien Bacher <seb128@debian.org> (supplier of updated gedit package)

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Format: 1.7
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 20:04:25 +0200
Source: gedit
Binary: gedit-common gedit
Architecture: source i386 all
Version: 2.6.0-3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Joe Drew <drew@debian.org>
Changed-By: Sebastien Bacher <seb128@debian.org>
Description: 
 gedit      - light-weight text editor
 gedit-common - light-weight text editor support files
Closes: 192601 233355
Changes: 
 gedit (2.6.0-3) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * GNOME Team Upload.
   * Upload in unstable.
 .
 gedit (2.6.0-2) experimental; urgency=low
 .
   Sebastien Bacher <seb128@debian.org>
   * GNOME Team Upload to fix the FTBFS due to missing Build-Depends.
   J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@debian.org>
   * [debian/control.in] Added missing build dependency on libxml-parser-perl.
 .
 gedit (2.6.0-1) experimental; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream release.
   * debian/rules:
     + Add dh_scrollkeeper call, and remove scrollkeeper call from
       gedit's postinst
     + ditto for dh_gconf
     + Make everything install into debian/tmp and copy selectively out of
       that
   * debian/control:
     + Update Build-Depends for GNOME 2.6 versions of libraries required;
       also, update debhelper to >= 4.1.84 to ensure we have dh_scrollkeeper
       and dh_gconf
     + Split package into two: gedit and gedit-common, the latter of which
       contains architecture-independent files like translations, omf files
       and pixmaps (Closes: Bug#233355)
   * Rename debhelper files to gedit.filename.
   * Replace xpm icon for gedit's Debian menu entry with better one provided
     by mcINEK <kaioshin@gazeta.pl>. Thanks! (Closes: Bug#192601)
Files: 
 443d85f88aeeed7a242b187d00b2148f 1724 gnome optional gedit_2.6.0-3.dsc
 2c63abb5fe46a49fa24e2aefb2fbd20a 10588 gnome optional gedit_2.6.0-3.diff.gz
 1249c015715729e0cc306af46c81b10f 443446 gnome optional gedit_2.6.0-3_i386.deb
 452ac1eecdc4fa47a128f28f9b6093d1 1538196 gnome optional gedit-common_2.6.0-3_all.deb

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