Translations in frameworks released tarballs

Christoph Feck christoph at maxiom.de
Mon Jul 7 23:01:42 UTC 2014


Hi,

at http://kde.org/info/kde-frameworks-5.0.0.php many tarballs are 
around 2.6 MB in size, some of them only around 100 KB or less.

Downloading and extracting kwindowsystem-5.0.0.tar.xz reveals:

	pepo at duo:~/kwindowsystem-5.0.0> du -sc *
	204     autotests
	4       CMakeLists.txt
	28      COPYING.LIB
	24      docs
	4       KF5WindowSystemConfig.cmake.in
	4       metainfo.yaml
	25416   po
	4       README.md
	792     src
	28      tests
	26508   total

95% of the archive contains translations, of which kwindowsystem does 
only use a single string, all others are "old" kdelibs4 strings.

If someone (e.g. a distribution packager) downloads all archives, he 
will waste 10x more space/time compared to the kdelibs4 archive. Not 
exactly the message we wanted to spread with the splitting efforts :)

Is there a way to detect and strip unused strings in the release 
tarballs?

-- 
Christoph Feck
http://kdepepo.wordpress.com/
KDE Quality Team


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