Packaged size excessively large

[Paul Sladen]

The inkscape .deb currently weighs in at 14MB compressed. Which is *huge* for what the program actually needs to be.

A large part of this size are the tutorials, however the size of the binaries (inkscape and inkview) each weigh in at over 8MB:

jr@lichts:~>dpkg -L inkscape | xargs ls -lhdSr | tail -5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 437K 2008-04-07 21:30 /usr/share/inkscape/tutorials/tutorial-calligraphy.ru.svg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 578K 2008-04-07 21:30 /usr/share/inkscape/icons/icons.svg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.8M 2008-04-07 21:30 /usr/share/inkscape/icons/tango_icons.svg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8.6M 2008-04-07 21:32 /usr/bin/inkview
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8.7M 2008-04-07 21:32 /usr/bin/inkscape

That 'inkview' (a small program for merely viewing SVG files) is only 17kB smaller than the fully-fledged editor is somewhat embarrassing.

The tutorials could be packaged separately as they are not a required dependency of the package, and along with the icons are cross-architecture.

[Rygle (rygle)]

This may be addressed somewhat in the code refactoring that's intended for 0.47

[Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex)]

Hi Paul,

There are now a couple of separate bug reports which deal with these issues. Firstly, bug #278001 deals with the big Inkview binary and bug #238276 deals with the tutorials. I'll mark this as a duplicate of the second of those bugs, because that represents the biggest use of space. Feel free to reorganise the reports in a different way if you like!