Re: `du' control files
Scott Ellis wrote:
> They are created by the debhelper program dh_du. They're useful for
> figuring out how much space on each of your filesystems a package is
> taking up, especially useful if one filesystem is getting cramped. Like
> the md5sums file, I wouldn't judge their presence either way.
Wouldn't it be better to compute this on-site? It is not like md5sums
where you are comparing the installed files against the distributed
ones. And a local calculation could be more accurate, because the
package du's count common directories (such as /usr) over and over.
Also, getting rid of the du files will free up some space on your
cramped /var filesystem :-)
Richard Braakman
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