xfce4-terminal (architecture-dependent) package includes html documentation in all languages and lots of png images

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas]

Binary package hint: xfce4-terminal

xfce4-terminal package includes html documentation in all languages and lots of png images (more than 1 MB) - please split this package into xfce4-terminal and architecture-independent xfce4-terminal-doc.
Current packaging causes several problems:
1. xfce4-terminal deb (compressed) package is about 1.3 MB size, this is not lightweight, like described in description, for example gnome-terminal deb package is only 0.1 MB size...
2. there is a duplication of the same data (png images and html files) in each .deb package per architecture (i386, amd64, sparc, lpia, powerpc, etc). This uses a lot of disk space on Ubuntu and Debian mirrors. (see Debian/Ubuntu packaging policy - http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html#s-bpp-archindepdata )

So, please consider splitting xfce4-terminal html documentation and related png images out into a separate, architecture-independent package ("xfce4-terminal-doc*_all.deb") and modify xfce4-terminal package to suggest or recommend on the xfce4-terminal-doc package.

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Thanks for your bug report.
I'll forward this to Debian pkg-xfce maintainers and see with them.

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

[17:50] <mr_pouit> Corsac: what do you think of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfce4-terminal/+bug/195585 ?
[17:51] <mr_pouit> I can provide a debdiff if you want.
[17:52] <Corsac> Hmmh
[17:52] <Corsac> not sure it's really that dramatic currently
[17:54] <Corsac> thunar-data is 5.5MB
[17:57] <Corsac> 1.3MB is not _that_ grave

Since we are currently trying to reduce our delta with Debian pkg-xfce, I'm not very fond of splitting xfce4-terminal if Debian doesn't do it too.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Mantas, your best bet is to report this bug to Debian and ask for them to fix it. Provide a link here, so we can track progress. Once the fix is in Debian it will be in Ubuntu as well shortly.

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Fixed in 0.6.0 (offline doc dropped).