Bug#477364: use of the gd driver for graphviz disables the antialiasing in graphs. The bug is still present

[Ron]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:17:29PM +0200, Ludovic Rousseau wrote:
> Faidon Liambotis a écrit :
>> On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 10:21:40PM +0200, Ludovic Rousseau wrote:
>>> Regarding #444147 I note that asterisk-doc (1:1.4.21.2~dfsg-3.1) from 
>>>  unstable is 32 MB but asterisk-doc (1:1.6.1.0~dfsg~rc3-1) from   
>>> experimental is 2 MB only and does not contain Doxygen images any 
>>> more.  So it looks like the size of the asterisk-doc packages will 
>>> not be and  issue any more.
>>> So #444147 may not be opened again.
>> After doxygen 1.5.9-1, the asterisk-progdoc package (as it's now called) has
>> gone up to 145MB... Builds from the next version are over 200MB.
>>
>> If this isn't changed back in doxygen, which I can fully understand, we are
>> considering dropping the whole package: it's not useful enough to justify
>> 200MB-600MB (squeeze when released plus sid/testing) in the archive.
>
> Maybe you can configure Doxygen to not generate some or all graphics if  
> they are not essential.
>
> Maybe a complete documentation with graphics is available online (on the  
> www.asterisk.org site?) and would be enough for the vast majority of 
> users.

Maybe, but I also noticed the last build of another package I uploaded
recently also had the size of its docs blow out by ~4x.  In that case
we are only talking 1.5MB -> 6MB, but across the whole archive those
sorts of numbers might start to look significant.

I'm not prejudging what the 'right' thing to do here is, but I don't
think we can just sweep it under the rug as "oh that's an asterisk
problem" in this case.  If the alternative to 'ugly' docs is no docs
at all, as you are kind of suggesting here, then that's not really
a very good alternative.

It's a totally separate question to ask whether the asterisk docs
are worth their weight in the archive at all or should otherwise
be pruned down in some places, so we should treat this as a canary
rather than an anomaly.  Simply removing the asterisk docs won't
make this 'bloat' go away for anyone else.

Probably we need some better idea of how much this really inflates
the whole distro archive, and a way for packages to individually
select the quality/space tradeoff that works best for them ...
Defaulting to something small and allowing people to increase the
quality where it's affordable or most wanted seems sane -- as much
as we all do like images to be pretty, people need to be able to
view them without their browser eating all their available memory
too ...

Cheers,
Ron