New optification issues in extras-testing

[Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

ext Andrew Flegg wrote:
>> "The application or its dependencies ignore the recommendation to
>> use the eMMC to install as much files as possible, filling the root
 >> partition with 500kb or more. "
>>
>> It does not say that the _sum_ of all dependencies has to be below 500k.
> 
> I agree, it looks ambiguous. The *intent* seems to be that installing
> an application shouldn't take up more than 500KB of the rootfs (your
> Python example on the package page is specious, BTW, as Python is now
> optified).
> 
> If the dependencies are used by lots of apps, and have separate
> maintainers; I can understand your point. However, since:
> 
>   * you maintain both libgoocanvas3 and osm2go
>   * neither are optified (according to the comments)
>   * I *imagine* there aren't lots of other apps depending on
>     libgoocanvas3 which have been let through QA

Where this 500kB figure for these packages come from?

If it's uncompressed size, then it's bogus as the rootfs is compressed.

The script attachment here:
	https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5795

Tries to give a more realistic[1] estimate on how much space
a package actually takes from the rootfs.


	- Eero

[1] Note that the documentation is removed with an apt hook.
If one installs package directly with dpkg to the device, this
hook doesn't get called.