Re: Massive size increases in certain packages

[Orion Poplawski <orion cora nwra com>]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Orion Poplawski (orion cora nwra com) said: 
> > I just got a bug report on python-numarray 
> > (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=240289) indicating 
> > that the size of the installed package has increased from around 6.7MB 
> > in FC6 (1.5.2-1.fc6) to around 56MB currently (1.5.2-2.fc7).  Now, the 
> > only this that was done was to rebuild the package for python 2.5 back 
> > in December.
> >
> > If I rebuild the package now the size is back to "normal".  The 
> > differences are in the size of the shared libraries:
>
> Do you turn off debug packages?
>
> Bill

I do nothing but rebuild.  Perhaps debug packages were broken for a bit?

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