[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#474543: smbclient install size nearly doubled
Steve Langasek
vorlon at debian.org
Mon Jul 21 18:36:03 UTC 2008
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 09:38:43AM -0700, Larry Doolittle wrote:
> Repeating the original (2008-04-28) table:
> 3.0.28a-1 3.2.0~pre1-1
> libtalloc1 0 84
> libwbclient0 0 136
> libsmbclient 2320 3808
> samba-common 6944 10928
> smbclient 12528 24568
> -------------------------------------------
> total 21792 39524
> and the new (2008-07-21) status (included in my
> mail to control at bugs.debian.org, but not shown
> by default on the bug status web page):
> 2:3.0.31-1 2:3.2.0-3
> libtalloc1 0 84
> libwbclient0 0 136
> libsmbclient 2348 3876
> samba-common 7036 11116
> smbclient 12704 25628
> -------------------------------------------
> total 22088 40840
> All numbers are for Architecture: amd64.
> My hope is that there is some systematic cause that can
> be fixed, and that there is not just general bloat and
> scope creep in the code between 3.0 and 3.2 branches.
I'm afraid that it is probably a question of code bloat. The samba codebase
has never had a very rigorous division between client and server code, for
instance, so there's probably a fair amount of code duplicated in the
executables that isn't actually needed there.
I've already ruled out the possibility that a failure to strip the
executables was to blame here, which is the only systematic cause I can
think of.
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