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

[Oliver Heimlich]

On 25.04.2016 08:46, Rafael Laboissière wrote:
> * Oliver Heimlich <oheim at posteo.de> [2016-04-25 07:18]:
> 
>> Okay, in release 1.3.0 some lengthy m-file functions and examples with
>> images have been added to the manual. The current git revision would
>> end up with (uncompressed) 3.1MB in /usr/share. After the upcoming
>> 1.4.2 upstream you can aproximately add another 500kb.
> 
> Building from Git HEAD, I am getting this:
> 
>    $ du -b $(find debian/octave-interval/usr/share/ -type f) | perl -ne
> '$s+=(split(/\t/))[0];END{print "$s\n"}'
>    1571590
> 
> The above code seems to be exactly the way Lintian computes the amount
> of data in /usr/share.  This is below the 2Mb limit and, hence, the
> arch-dep-package-has-big-usr-share warning is not triggered.
> 
> Rafael

You are right! Obviously my file-roller was playing tricks on me with an
outdated cache.

So let us wait until the package size clearly is above that limit again.

Oliver