[Pkg-octave-devel] Regarding octave-interval packaging

[Rafael Laboissière]

* Oliver Heimlich <oheim at posteo.de> [2016-04-24 22:39]:

> Am 24. April 2016 15:41:03 MESZ, schrieb "Rafael Laboissière" <rafael at laboissiere.net>:
>> * Oliver Heimlich <oheim at posteo.de> [2016-04-24 11:39]:
>>
>>> 3. I want to split the package into an arch-independent package and 
>>> an arch-dependent package, since 90% of the package goes into 
>>> /usr/share as Lintian says. I still have to figure out the correct 
>>> dependencies between the packages.
>>>
>>> [snip]
>>
>> We have already discussed on this issue, and we decided to not split 
>> the arch-dep and arch-indep packages:
>>
>> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-octave-devel/2015-October/011775.html
>
> The uncompressed package is clearly beyond the 2MB limit (although I 
> could reduce it by stripping some test files).

The message in October 2015 regarded version 1.2.0-1 of the 
octave-interval package.  I did not realize that the situation for 1.4.1 
may have changed.  At any rate, once you strip the test files, does the 
package still have more than 2Mb in /usr/share?

Rafael