[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#474543: smbclient install size nearly doubled

[Steve Langasek]

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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