Comment 4 for bug 621175

I'm appears to be related to the fact that we uploaded the linux_2.6.35.orig.tar.gz with the 2.6.35-16.22 upload. And subsequently in the rush to get the 2.6.35-19.28 beta kernel uploaded to re-generate the armel udebs that were removed from the archive, it too re-uploaded linux_2.6.35.orig.tar.gz. Examining the latest 2.6.35-20.29 kernel, the size appears to be back down as it should be:

https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/2.6.35-20.29

$ ls -lh *.deb | awk '{print $5,$8}'
9.9M linux-image-2.6.35-20-virtual_2.6.35-20.29_amd64.deb
9.8M linux-image-2.6.35-20-virtual_2.6.35-20.29_i386.deb

I'm therefore closing this bug for now as this should no longer be an issue going forward.