[Pkg-ace-devel] Bug#562164: Bug#562164: Bug#562164: libtao-doc: newest version of package is enormous

[Johnny Willemsen]

Hi,

Do you use the .doxygen files under /etc to generate doxygen, or do you do
generate everything? For regular distributions we only use the .doxygen
files in each /etc directory.

JOhnny

> It's mostly because of the images and the search capabilities. What
> follows is an explanation of the growth but I cannot come with a good
> solution to shrink the size.
> 
> * Images:
> 
> As ACE < 5.6.3-6 did not include graphviz as a dependency, images were
> not being generated and the docs were image-less. You are right there
> is no notice of the addition of graphviz as a build-depends in the
> changelog of 5.6.3-6 (there is in the changelog for 5.7.4/5.7.5, in
> trunk, but I forgot to add that to 5.6.3-6).
> 
> In libace-doc, the .png images account for 50% of the installed size
> (112 MB of 225 MB)
> 
> In libtao-doc, the .png images account for 40% of the installed size (
> 450 MB of 1.2GB )
> 
> For some images (most of them), an additional HTML page is generated.
> 
> * Search:
> 
> Doxygen is generating a search engine for all the docs. This is
> enabled in ACE 5.6.3 (SEARCHENGINE = yes in the .doxygen files). I
> don't know why this was not being generated for ACE 5.6.3-5. Why
> researching the growth in installed size, I've noticed search is not
> working because the search.js files were compressed by debhelper:
> 
> ./ace-6/usr/share/doc/libace-doc/rmcast/search/search.js.gz
> ./ace-6/usr/share/doc/libace-doc/search/search.js.gz
> ./ace-6/usr/share/doc/libace-doc/QoS/search/search.js.gz
> ./ace-6/usr/share/doc/libace-doc/ssl/search/search.js.gz
> 
> We should exclude .js from dh_compress
> 
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Colin Watson <cjwatson at debian.org>
wrote:
> > Package: libtao-doc
> > Version: 5.6.3-6
> >
> > In version 5.6.3-6, libtao-doc grew by a factor of >50, to 519MB.
> > libace-doc got quite a bit bigger too. Isn't this a bit excessive? I
> > imagine lots of this is autogenerated, but 29 times bigger than the
> > upstream tarball seems a bit much.
> >
> > I started rebuilding my local Debian mirror last night, and it seems to
> > have taken most of the night just downloading libtao-doc; given the
> > former size of the package and the fact that there's no indication of a
> > change of this magnitude in the changelog, it looks as though it may be
> > a mistake. Packages this big tend not to be very useful anyway because
> > many people will just uninstall them rather than having to upgrade them.
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Pau Garcia i Quiles
> http://www.elpauer.org
> (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)
> 
> 
> 
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