FS#75832 - [ttf-iosevka-nerd] jumped 572M in size from 2.1.0-2 to 2.2.1-1

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Larson (typecasto) - Tuesday, 06 September 2022, 21:58 GMT
Last edited by Toolybird (Toolybird) - Wednesday, 07 September 2022, 05:28 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
ttf-iosevka-nerd version 2.1.0-2 seems to be around ~110M, while version 2.2.1-1 seems to be about 6 times that amount.
Almost 600MB more disk usage after a font update seems excessive, leading me to believe this is a bug.

```
Package (48) Old Version New Version Net Change Download Size
[...]
community/ttf-iosevka-nerd 2.1.0-2 2.2.1-1 572.79 MiB 33.67 MiB
[...]
```

Additional info:
`pacman -Si ttf-iosevka-nerd` tells me the package has an Installed Size of 675.93 MiB.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Have version 2.1.0-2 installed.
2. `pacman -Syu`
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Closed by  Toolybird (Toolybird)
Wednesday, 07 September 2022, 05:28 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  See comments
Comment by Toolybird (Toolybird) - Wednesday, 07 September 2022, 05:26 GMT
Thanks for the heads up. If you compare the upstream zip files between the releases, 2 things stand out:

1. latest release has a lot more fonts (e.g. Extrabold, Semibold)
2. the font files themselves are a lot larger in latest release

Maybe you could ask upstream about it? Anyway, this is not an Arch packaging bug.

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