On Mon, 09 Feb 2009, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 10:03:09PM +0100, Joey Schulze a écrit : > > > > The data archive will contain huge packages that cannot be distributed > > through the regular archive due to their sheer size. The number of free > > large data packages, such as medical and statistical data sets, and also > > game data, is increasing and we ask for a new service to make them > > available to Debian users. > > Dear Joey, > > that sounds very, very interesting! Is there a place where we can know better > about this data archive? In Debian Med, we are already working on a system to > get data and, and I am exploring the possibility to to use it to produce > binary > packages but no source packages. Would it be compatible with your plans?
The data.debian.org thing is actually Joerg's proposal, he first raised it at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/05/msg00970.html last year. Cheers, -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `' Operating System | `- http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org