On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 07:33:03PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > A few additional rules for your consideration: > > - The data directory shouldn't be synced to debian releases, and ought > to be paralled to dists, not main/contrib/non-free. > (Since there are no executables, what's the benefit of syncing it, with > the presumed multiplying of size and hassle? If a dataset needs a > particular > program or version, a simple dependency should be enough.) I thought about this... but in the case of a format change, a reader would have to be downloaded out of unstable (if you have a stable dist) or the data would have to wait until unstable is stablized. If there is no change in the data, then symlinks should suffice to not create a duplicate of data. Espcially if they DON'T change very often.
> A thought: Do we need to keep a source archive separate from the .deb? > Almost all of these package are effectively their own source, and since > we are talking about large datasets, the burden of keeping both seems > unnecessary. Before you light up the flamethrower, I'm not promoting the > idea of not releasing source. But consider a package that is basically > a reproduction of a website. Do we really need two 7Mb packages who's > fundamental difference is that they unpack into a different location? > Instead, we could make the .debs act like installers, except that > they would grab the external archive from the CD or via http. Or have > a /usr/doc/<package>/debian, whose rules file has a way to copy the > installed data into a new tree in order to rebuild the package. Very good point. From what I understand, ammendments to proposals should be "convince the proposer" so if you agree with this, steve, consider me convinced to amend as follows: - Data debs should include all files from the original, upstream source installed into proper directories for Debian's requirements. So being, a seperate source archive need not be kept. > > Steve > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Please cc all mailing list replies to me, also. ========================================================================= * http://benham.net/index.html <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< * * -------------------- * -----------------------------------------------* * Debian Developer, Debian Project Secretary, Debian Webmaster * * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * =========================================================================
