On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 05:15:09PM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 17.08.2005, 16:51 +0200 schrieb Frederic Lehobey: > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 04:29:26PM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: > > > Am Mittwoch, den 17.08.2005, 15:39 +0200 schrieb Frederic Lehobey: > > [..] > > > > There are several projects (inside Debian) I know of for collective > > > > packaging practice and review: > > > [..] > > > > Could not we settle something similar for science packages? > > > > (like pkg-debian-science). > > > > > > On alioth? This could become a really big project or do you only want to > > > keep the debian files there (as e.g. the pkg-java [1] guys do)? > > > > Yes, this is what I meant. I was thinking of source+debian files as > > ocaml maintainers do. > [snip] > > Ok, now I understand. But be aware, that even the compressed source can > be large (e.g. Jmol, gopenmol). Would this still allow a packaging > practice, where the upstream is put in compressed form in orig-tarball > (e.g. used by the apache maintainers team). Sorry, if this is a dumb > question, but I am not familiar with svn and e.g. the Chemistry > Development Kit needs such a packaging practice because of the circular > dependency with Joelib (the tarball then contains compressed joelib, cdk > and cdk-plugin archives). I don't know anything about any of the version tracking systems, but it might be possible, in a large number of cases, to not include the .orig.tar.gz itself, but only a hyperlink to it, and the .diff.gz. In fact, this makes some sense, because then there is no bother worrying about a trojaned orig.
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