#1089509 Please reconsider building libgsl-prof by default

Package:
src:gsl
Source:
src:gsl
Submitter:
Adrian Bunk
Date:
2024-12-08 06:24:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1089509#5
Date:
2024-12-08 05:44:33 UTC
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To:
Looking at #503290, "it bloats the archive" was the only
argument against building libgsl-prof by default.

I remember how there was a minor issue on the Debian mirrors
several years ago when we had the first file > 2 GB in the
archive (an .orig.tar). libgsl-prof is 4 MB.

It would be both more convenient for users and easier to maintain
if libgsl-prof just gets built by default.

(I was affected by the latter with the 2.6+dfsg-2+deb11u1 LTS upload,
 which originally hit NEW and needed a backport of pkg.gsl.prof to
 avoid NEW.)
#1089509#10
Date:
2024-12-08 06:20:30 UTC
From:
To:
On 8 December 2024 at 07:44, Adrian Bunk wrote:
| Source: gsl
| Version: 2.8+dfsg-5
| Severity: minor
|
| Looking at #503290, "it bloats the archive" was the only
| argument against building libgsl-prof by default.
|
| I remember how there was a minor issue on the Debian mirrors
| several years ago when we had the first file > 2 GB in the
| archive (an .orig.tar). libgsl-prof is 4 MB.
|
| It would be both more convenient for users and easier to maintain
| if libgsl-prof just gets built by default.
|
| (I was affected by the latter with the 2.6+dfsg-2+deb11u1 LTS upload,
|  which originally hit NEW and needed a backport of pkg.gsl.prof to
|  avoid NEW.)

I think I fought that to no avail in the past. If you think you can make it
work, and can prepare a PR I would really appreciate it.

Thanks also for propagating that old CVE to stable.

Dirk
#1089509#15
Date:
2024-12-08 06:20:30 UTC
From:
To:
On 8 December 2024 at 07:44, Adrian Bunk wrote:
| Source: gsl
| Version: 2.8+dfsg-5
| Severity: minor
|
| Looking at #503290, "it bloats the archive" was the only
| argument against building libgsl-prof by default.
|
| I remember how there was a minor issue on the Debian mirrors
| several years ago when we had the first file > 2 GB in the
| archive (an .orig.tar). libgsl-prof is 4 MB.
|
| It would be both more convenient for users and easier to maintain
| if libgsl-prof just gets built by default.
|
| (I was affected by the latter with the 2.6+dfsg-2+deb11u1 LTS upload,
|  which originally hit NEW and needed a backport of pkg.gsl.prof to
|  avoid NEW.)

I think I fought that to no avail in the past. If you think you can make it
work, and can prepare a PR I would really appreciate it.

Thanks also for propagating that old CVE to stable.

Dirk