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Moving the heavier "tools" part of the gettext base package into a separate sub-package. | |||
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Revision as of 05:02, 26 May 2022
Split Gettext Package
Summary
Moving the heavier "tools" part of the gettext base package into a separate sub-package.
Owner
- Name: Sundeep ANAND
- Email: <suanand@redhat.com>
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora Linux 37
- Last updated: 2022-05-26
- devel thread
- FESCo issue:
- Tracker bug:
- Release notes tracker:
Detailed Description
Gettext is one of the core packages. It's install uncompressed size is about ~6.1 MB. A large number of packages directly or indirectly depend on it. Extracting "tools" from gettext main package into a separate sub-package would reduce the footprint. Hence a saving of ~4.7 MB on most normal installations.
After split this should look like:
gettext package -------------------- compressed size: 172 kB uncompressed size: 749.6 kB gettext-tools subpackage ------------------------ compressed size: 1.0 MB uncompressed size: 4.7 MB As gettext depends on gettext-libs: gettext-libs subpackage ----------------------- compressed size: 322K uncompressed size: 933.7 kB
Grouping of binaries:
gettext: envsubst gettext gettext.sh ngettext gettext-tools: msgattrib msgcat msgcmp msgcomm msgconv msgen msgexec msgfilter msgfmt msggrep msginit msgmerge msgunfmt msguniq recode-sr-latin xgettext
Feedback
Benefit to Fedora
Space saving of about ~4.7 MB on most of the normal installations.
Scope
- Proposal owners:
- Other developers:
- Packagers who owns packages implicitly expects gettext-tools a new sub package. May need to update the dependency from "gettext" to "gettext-tools".
- Release engineering:
- Policies and guidelines: N/A (not needed for this Change)
- Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)
- Alignment with Objectives:
Upgrade/compatibility impact
Both "gettext" and "gettext-tools" obsoletes earlier version of gettext.
So, on update both packages will get installed on systems having gettext. (preinstalled)
How To Test
User Experience
User will see lighter gettext package and a new gettext-tools package.
Many of the desktop/web apps/libraries use gettext-tools. They would need to update their dependency to "gettext-tools" now.
Dependencies
Packages which explicitly has a dependency to gettext are basically need to check for binary they are dependent on. And if that belongs to gettext-tool, they need to update their dependency to "gettext-tools" from gettext.
Perhaps about ~26 packages require gettext and ~1115 packages have build dependency.
Furthermore, gettext-tools has a dependency to gettext.
Contingency Plan
- Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) Revert the relevant packages updated.
- Contingency deadline: Beta freeze
- Blocks release? No
Documentation
None.