[Popcon-developers] Bug#149425: should compress data before sending

[Bill Allombert]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 11:49:58PM +0100, Erik Schanze wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 12:54:30PM +0100, Erik Schanze wrote:
> > > How about this bug?
> > > Was there any work done on it?
> > > It's open for more than 2 years now and seems not really hard to fix.
> >
> > If it easy to fix, how would you do it ?
> >
> As described in mails before, add this functionality to popcon server and 
> client, but I have no access to do it. ;-)

But you have access to the source code, everything is in the popularity-contest
package. Basically that amount to change popcon to produce a correct
compressed attachement (base64'ed), and the server to recognize it and
parse it.

> > I proposed a solution, but the other popcon maintainer disagreed, so
> > I did not it implement it.
> >
> Why? Are there any problems with doing so?

I proposed to put the base64 of the .gz in the body of the email
between specific delimiter (like POPCON-COMPRESSED-0 ...
END-POPCON-COMPRESSED-0) and not make a full-blown MIME attachment
(which is harder to implement).

Petter did not like it, because it make harder to read the email manually.

> > However the current popcon server (gluck.debian.org, aka
> > people.debian.org and a dozen other vhost) is a bit overloaded
> > currently so I am careful about not making change that would increase
> > the resource usage.
> >
> But it will decrease the network usage.

Apparently bandwidth is not a issue for gluck. 

> If there is really no solution available, you should tag this bug "wontfix" 
> with an final statement.

Oh, don't worry, it will be fixed eventually...

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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