Re: Debian packages of Wine

[Detlef Riekenberg]

On Fr, 2009-01-16 at 07:11 +0000, Paul Bryan Roberts 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 ?

deb support different compression types: gz, bzip and lzma
You can use "ar -x name.deb" to get the content.
Scott has a seperate devel package and is using lzma for the data.
unpacked: 55850kB wine + 13960KB wine-dev

The other package is using gz.
unpacked: 69180KB wine with wine-dev