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[Eduard Braun <Eduard.Braun2@xxxxxx>]

** Changed in: inkscape
       Status: Triaged => Fix Released

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Title:
  Inkscape package contains very large (8MB) inkview binary file -
  please package it separately

Status in Inkscape:
  Fix Released
Status in inkscape package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix
Status in inkscape package in Baltix:
  New
Status in inkscape package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: inkscape

  The inkscape and inkview binaries are the largest on my Ubuntu 8.04
  system:

  $ ls -lk /usr/bin | sort -rn -k5 | head -n5
  -rwxr-xr-x  1 root   root    8042 2008-04-07 21:42 inkscape
  -rwxr-xr-x  1 root   root    8030 2008-04-07 21:42 inkview
  -rwxr-xr-x  1 root   root    3685 2008-06-13 01:22 Xephyr
  -rwxr-xr-x  1 root   root    3659 2008-03-08 04:45 gimp-2.4
  -rwxr-xr-x  1 root   root    2861 2008-05-26 11:11 gdbtui

  Very large (8MB) inkview executable isn't needed for Inkscape - please
  package it separately or  use one of the following ways:

  I suspect that the inkscape and inkview binaries are > 90% identical.
  Would it be possible to eliminate one of them, and thereby save 8MB?
  Possible methods:

  - Two links to the same executable which checks argv[0].
  - An executable for inkscape and a script for inkview which calls inkscape with a view-only flag.
  - Two small executables and a shared library.

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