Debian packages of Wine

Ben Klein shacklein at gmail.com
Fri Jan 16 18:05:36 CST 2009


2009/1/17 Bjoern Krombholz <fox.box+wine at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Paul Bryan Roberts
> <pbronline-wine at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> I'm puzzled by the sizes of the packages.  Packages for Debian by Maurilio and James are 13-14 Mb to download whereas Ubuntu packages by Scott are only 7-8 Mb. Anyone see any reason for this ?
>
> 1. Ubuntu debs are split into a base and a -dev pkg containing the includes.

Aha! I thought I didn't have headers in my packages. Ideally, I'd want
to produce -dev packages separately, as the average user doesn't build
libwine packages. Maybe Scott can help with this :)

> 2. Ubuntu debs are lzma compressed, while those for Debian are gzip'ed.

I'd expect this wouldn't make a big difference.

> /Björn



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