The size of the last binary package for flite has increased dramatically:
version 2.2-7:    ~240 kB (~600 kB installed)
version 2.2-7+b2: ~30 MB (~67 MB installed)

This new version is marked as a binary-only upload without any source
changes, so there are no explanations in the Changelog. I also could not
find any relevant information in the Package Tracker and Bug Reports.

The package is described as a "Small run-time speech synthesis engine",
and the name "flite" was supposed to mean "festival-lite", but now this
package became not "small" at all, and in fact at least 10 times larger
than festival itself.

Apparently, there is something very wrong with this "+b2" version.

Hello,

Mikhail Ryazanov, le mer. 02 sept. 2026 16:01:32 -0600, a ecrit:
libraries are not built yet when the binaries are linked, and thus
the libflite libraries get linked statically into the binaries instead
of dynamically...

I had already disabled parallel build for reproducibility reasons in
git, that'll fix this bug as well :)

Samuel