May 23, 2012

Installed-Size: 0

Redefining the meaning of Installed-Size:

Package: gcipher
Version: 1.1-1
Installed-Size: 0
$ dget gcipher=1.1-1
...
$ dpkg -x gcipher_1.1-1_all.deb gcipher
$ du -hs gcipher
188K    gcipher
$ du --apparent-size -hs gcipher
75K     gcipher

2 comments:

  1. There's a bug somewhere, then. But in which package?

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    1. Don't know. Rebuilding it leads to a non-zero Installed-Size.
      Since it is an arch: all package there's no public build log, so can't check what the build chain was.
      FWIW, there are two other I-S: 0 packages in sid, but they are truly empty. So... who knows what happened :-/

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