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# `arch-dep-package-has-big-usr-share`

The package has a significant amount of architecture-independent data (over 4MB, or over 2MB and more than 50% of the package) in `/usr/share` but is an architecture-dependent package. This is wasteful of mirror space and bandwidth since it means distributing multiple copies of this data, one for each architecture.

If the data in `/usr/share` is not architecture-independent, this is a Policy violation that should be fixed by moving the data elsewhere (usually `/usr/lib`).

Severity: | `info`
Experimental: | `false`

## See also

- Section 6.7.5 of the Debian Developer's Reference

- list of all the affected packages
- the source of this tag