[Python-modules-team] Bug#629919: python-pyside-dbg: package is enormous

[Colin Watson]

Package: python-pyside-dbg
Version: 1.0.3-1
Severity: wishlist

   * cjwatson wonders if python-pyside-dbg really needs to be so obscenely enormous
  <cjwatson> (as my mirror sits there trying to download it - and of course if it fails partway through then debmirror has to start from the beginning)
  <OdyX> cjwatson: I would be happy to get that reduced. Patches welcome. :-)
  <OdyX> (not producing the debug flavour would divide the (huge) build time by two)
  <cjwatson> could it not just be split into -dbg packages for each of the runtimes?  that way at least an interrupted mirror wouldn't have to start so much earlier
  <cjwatson> or is there some reason it needs to be a giant conglomerate?
  <OdyX> there is no particular reason besides "-dbg is useless in most cases, so for the rare cases it is actually needed, having only one package does sound saner"
  <OdyX> cjwatson: I'm not particularily opposed to the idea; though I'm not certain the work it'll need is worth it.
  <OdyX> cjwatson: please file a bug; I'll think about it (I'm /away now).
  <cjwatson> OK.  I wasted 192MB of download on a 1Mbit link, so I do care :-)
  <cjwatson> er, 1Mbit/s

  (on a good day - today is not such a day)

  <OdyX> (the split won't make the sum of the packages' sizes smaller than the big blob size it currently is)
  <cjwatson> no, but it would reduce the penalty for interruption
  <cjwatson> debmirror doesn't repeatedly download the same file, but it doesn't deal efficiently with interrupted downloads of a single very large file

My smoking ADSL line would appreciate it.  Thanks. :-)

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]