[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#942487: Bug#942487: Bug#942487: rust-web-sys: Provides header is more than 256K long and it breaks reprepro...

[Ansgar]

Ximin Luo writes:
> Raphael Hertzog:
>> Don't abuse the "Provides" field when you have such a volume of
>> interfaces to document.
>
> Can you please explain why 256 KB provides field is "abuse"?

The Packages index is a shared resource by all packages and every Debian
user has to download and process the full packages index; adding
excessive amounts of data should therefore be avoided.  (The 256 KB
added to the Packages index are larger than the entire source
(compressed) source package...)

> Do you have some concrete suggestions on how to improve the tool to
> reduce this "abuse"?

Don't generate virtual packages (Provides) for every feature; don't
generate four virtual packages for every feature.

Ansgar