Ridiculously large packages

2009-11-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
Umm... Package: nexuiz-data Priority: optional Section: games Installed-Size: 782252 Maintainer: Debian Games Team pkg-games-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Architecture: all Version: 2.5.2-1 Recommends: nexuiz (= 2.5.2) | nexuiz-server (= 2.5.2) Suggests: nexuiz-music (= 2.5.2) Conflicts: nexuiz (

Re: Ridiculously large packages

2009-11-20 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com (20/11/2009): If you ever want this to be available on Debian CDs, you're going to have to do something about the size. For now, I'm going to blacklist this package altogether. And you didn't see Urban Terror and its 700+ MB yet! Speaking of which, what's the

Re: Ridiculously large packages

2009-11-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2009-11-20 10:36:10, schrieb Steve McIntyre: Umm... Package: nexuiz-data snip Size: 793400238 If you ever want this to be available on Debian CDs, you're going to have to do something about the size. For now, I'm going to blacklist this package altogether. Does Debian realy continue

Re: Ridiculously large packages

2009-11-20 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org (20/11/2009): And you didn't see Urban Terror and its 700+ MB yet! Speaking of which, what's the status of data.debian.org? IIRC, it's been in the pipe for 2+ years at the very least (was already mentioned during DC'07). :) OOH.

nexuiz-data does not fit on a single CD

2009-11-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package: nexuiz-data Version: 2.5.2-1 Severity: serious Any reason for not reporting this as a proper bug? Doing that with this post. On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:36:10AM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: Umm... Package: nexuiz-data Installed-Size: 782252 Dear maintainer, the Debian CD team (in

Re: nexuiz-data does not fit on a single CD

2009-11-20 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 14:00 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: the Debian CD team (in the person of Steve McIntyre) has noted the enormous size of nexuiz-data, which means the package won't fit on a single CD. I'm setting severity serious because this de facto

Re: nexuiz-data does not fit on a single CD

2009-11-20 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:59:07 -0200 Gustavo Noronha Silva k...@debian.org wrote: On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 14:00 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: This is silly. I haven't seen bug reports about packages not fitting in diskettes, and it would not make any sense if they were filed! =). I thought this

Re: nexuiz-data does not fit on a single CD

2009-11-20 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 14:00 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: the Debian CD team (in the person of Steve McIntyre) has noted the enormous size of nexuiz-data, which means the package won't fit on a single CD. I'm setting severity serious because this de facto means the package cannot be

Re: Ridiculously large packages

2009-11-20 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 20 November 2009, Steve McIntyre wrote: If you ever want this to be available on Debian CDs, you're going to have to do something about the size. For now, I'm going to blacklist this package altogether. Even though they do technically still fit on a CD, you may want to consider

Re: Ridiculously large packages

2009-11-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 04:21:21PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 20 November 2009, Steve McIntyre wrote: If you ever want this to be available on Debian CDs, you're going to have to do something about the size. For now, I'm going to blacklist this package altogether. Even though they do

Re: nexuiz-data does not fit on a single CD

2009-11-20 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 15:23 +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: Ack. People which use computers which did not came with a DVD reader built in are probably not able to play nexuiz anyway as it needs a pretty fastCPU and graphics card to be fun :) Well, you see, my current computer (Lenovo x200s) does

Re: nexuiz-data does not fit on a single CD

2009-11-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 02:00:18PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Package: nexuiz-data Version: 2.5.2-1 Severity: serious Any reason for not reporting this as a proper bug? Doing that with this post. True, should have done that too. Thanks. :-) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Ridiculously large packages

2009-11-20 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 20 November 2009, Steve McIntyre wrote: For now, I've added a cutoff of 300,000,000 bytes as a maximum package size for adding to CDs. That means that the following 3 packages will be dropped from the squeeze CD builds: 306308472

Re: nexuiz-data does not fit on a single CD

2009-11-20 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 01:33:29PM -0200, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 15:23 +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: Ack. People which use computers which did not came with a DVD reader built in are probably not able to play nexuiz anyway as it needs a pretty fastCPU and

Re: Ridiculously large packages

2009-11-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 05:01:07PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 20 November 2009, Steve McIntyre wrote: For now, I've added a cutoff of 300,000,000 bytes as a maximum package size for adding to CDs. That means that the following 3 packages will be dropped from the squeeze CD builds:

Re: nexuiz-data does not fit on a single CD

2009-11-20 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 16:47 +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: It surely is a bug for those who care about CDs. But Zack's point is: should it be RC, normal, minor, or wontfix ? minor =) -- Gustavo Noronha Silva k...@debian.org Debian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Ridiculously large packages

2009-11-20 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl wrote: On Friday 20 November 2009, Steve McIntyre wrote: If you ever want this to be available on Debian CDs, you're going to have to do something about the size. For now, I'm going to blacklist this package altogether. Even though

Bug#557245: large packages dropped from CDs

2009-11-20 Thread Holger Levsen
package: release-notes x-debbugs-cc: debian-cd@lists.debian.org, debian-de...@lists.debian.org On Freitag, 20. November 2009, Steve McIntyre wrote: For now, I've added a cutoff of 300,000,000 bytes as a maximum package size for adding to CDs. That means that the following 3 packages will be

Re: Ridiculously large packages

2009-11-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 04:18:54PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 05:01:07PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 20 November 2009, Steve McIntyre wrote: For now, I've added a cutoff of 300,000,000 bytes as a maximum package size for adding to CDs. That means that the

Re: Ridiculously large packages

2009-11-20 Thread Karl Goetz
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:21:27 + Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 04:18:54PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 05:01:07PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 20 November 2009, Steve McIntyre wrote: For now, I've added a cutoff of 300,000,000

Re: Ridiculously large packages somewhat Off Topic

2009-11-20 Thread Bob Grabbe
Is it just me or did anyone else think that the title of this thread was suspiciously like a lot of spam that you get ? - Original Message - From: Karl Goetz k...@kgoetz.id.au To: debian-cd@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 5:19 PM Subject: Re: Ridiculously large packages

Re: Ridiculously large packages

2009-11-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 08:49:07AM +1030, Karl Goetz wrote: On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:21:27 + Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com wrote: And I now have code to generate the following as README.excluded on CD1: (example from currently-running squeeze i386 CD run)

Re: Ridiculously large packages

2009-11-20 Thread Karl Goetz
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:45:15 + Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 08:49:07AM +1030, Karl Goetz wrote: On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:21:27 + Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com wrote: and that caused the following packages to be removed because of dependencies: