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On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 3:33 PM, Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 12/17/17 19:39, Mike Gilbert wrote: |
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>> On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 8:21 AM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> Hello, everyone. |
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>>> |
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>>> It's my pleasure to announce that with a majority vote the QA team has |
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>>> accepted a new policy. The accepted wording is: |
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>>> Total size of 'files' subdirectory of a package should not be larger |
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>>> than 32 KiB. If the package needs more auxiliary files, they should |
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>>> be put into SRC_URI e.g. via tarballs. |
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>>> (the total size being computed as a sum of apparent file sizes) |
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>>> |
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>>> The relevant policy vote is finishing at bug #633758 [1]. The CI reports |
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>>> [2] were updated to report packages whose 'files' directories exceed |
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>>> 64 KiB, to avoid adding many new warnings at once. The limit will |
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>>> be lowered down to 32 KiB as packages are fixed to comply with the new |
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>>> policy. |
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>>> |
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>>> At the same time, I would like to explicitly remind developers that |
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>>> the spirit of the policy is 'do not let "files" grow large', not 'make |
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>>> sure you're one byte less than 32769.' Do not argue that your package |
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>>> exceeds the limit only by few bytes -- even if it gets close to the |
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>>> limit, then it means it's way too large. |
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>> I just want to voice my opinion on this: as a developer, this policy |
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>> is a royal pain in the ass. |
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>> I would ask the council to please increase this limit to at least 100 |
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>> KiB, preferably more. |
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> As a user I would like to ask everyone involved to stick to the 32kB |
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> limit so that we (as in everyone) don't have to fetch megabytes of |
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> patches we'll never use, just because someone was lazy. |
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According to Francesco's numbers, that represents a small fraction of |
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the space used by a repository. A typical user won't even notice it. |
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Call me lazy if you like, but I prefer to let the computer do slightly |
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more work if it saves me several minutes every time I want to push out |
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a patch. |
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