[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Getting rid of the NEW step for binaries ?

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le 23/10/2019 à 17:30, Ansgar a écrit :
> On Wed, 2019-10-23 at 10:45 +0200, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
>>> Debian's repository format has costs for each package as we require
>>> *all* users to process the entire Packages file which is already
>>> quite
>>> large (42+ MB).  As long as we do so, we cannot add too much
>>> information
>>> to this index.
>> dkg opened this bug:
>> https://bugs.debian.org/942898
>> to discuss about it.
>>
>> To give some numbers, we have only 30 packages with more than 1000
>> chars in the Provides field (25 are rust packages),
>> representing 172k (17k compressed).
>> It represents 0.3% of the current Packages size.
> 
> And I think 815 out of 1451 librust-* packages are currently empty ones
> (I searched for `Installed-Size: 6`).  They consume ~0.93M of Packages,
> or 2% of Packages.
Which is pretty much the % of rust packages in the archive:
100*649/30725 = 2.1%

So, I guess, nothing shocking here! or I misunderstood something? :)

Sylvestre