New optification issues in extras-testing

Jeff Moe moe at blagblagblag.org
Tue Dec 29 22:15:46 EET 2009


On Tuesday 29 December 2009 16:49:21 Till Harbaum / Lists wrote:
> > Now, on to solving the problem, have you tried putting "auto" in
> > debian/optify? If so, did both packages continue to work after being
> > auto-optified by the builder (or maemo-build-deb in Scratchbox, if you
> > prefer).
> 
> Why should i? I think the 500k per package limit is fine and neither of
> my two packages exceeds it.

You should do so, so your users don't brick their phones. It's soooooo easy to 
put everything in /opt. I agree the symlinking madness is a bit messy, but it 
workz and it's what we are stuck with until we have 2G NANDs.

Do it for the users, not for some QA list.  :)

-Jeff


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