[Pkg-openssl-devel] How come package doubles in size?

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 01:19:37PM +0200, Jaap Keuter wrote:
> How come the uncompressed package size doubles going from 0.9.8e-6 to e-9
> while compressed size increases by just 2k ?

What i see is:
-rw-r--r-- 1 kurt kurt 2196396 2007-08-15 20:02 libssl-dev_0.9.8e-6_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 kurt kurt 2191446 2007-09-28 20:33 libssl-dev_0.9.8e-9_amd64.deb

And:
 Installed-Size: 6908
 Installed-Size: 11572

But comparing the files in the package, I see:
-    525082 usr/lib/libssl.a
-   3298010 usr/lib/libcrypto.a
+    524738 usr/lib/libssl.a
+   3280442 usr/lib/libcrypto.a
[...]
-      2331 usr/share/man/man3/BN_add_word.3ssl.gz
+      2332 usr/share/man/man3/BN_add_word.3ssl.gz
[...]
-     12347 usr/share/doc/libssl-dev/changelog.Debian.gz
+     12575 usr/share/doc/libssl-dev/changelog.Debian.gz
[...]
-     46139 usr/include/openssl/asn1.h
+     46728 usr/include/openssl/asn1.h
[...]
-     23863 usr/include/openssl/ocsp.h
+     23795 usr/include/openssl/ocsp.h
[...]
-     28370 usr/include/openssl/pem.h
+     27927 usr/include/openssl/pem.h

Which does not explain the difference at all.  So I'm guessing
this is some change in either dpkg-dev, or the util that it's
using to calculate that.


Kurt