Bug#1095314: Unused files wasting space

Le 21 février 2025 10:57:12 GMT+01:00, Laurent Bigonville <[email protected]> a écrit :
>reassign 1095314 desktop-base 13.0.0~pre1
>thanks
>
>On Fri, 7 Feb 2025 00:34:34 +0100 Eduard Bloch <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>Hello,
>> a reoccurring topic d-u mailing list is the size of the initrds. Today I
>> wanted to check what's the current contributor. I found a few files from
>> plymouth which are quite large and simply don't serve any purpose:
>>
>> glow.xcf
>> logo+emerald.svg
>> Emerald_plymouth.svg
>>
>
>All these files are coming from the desktop-base package.
>
>The plymouth initramfs hook scripts copies all the files that are inside "/usr/share/plymouth/themes/<theme_name>", if you believe that these files shouldn't be installed in the initramfs, I guess best is to ask the maintainer of that package to move the files to some other location.

Yes this is an oversight, I'll fix it in a future upload.


Happy hacking,
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Aurélien