Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

2011-03-31 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 31 Mar 2011, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 09:54:49AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> >I think so. The package with long names tend to follow a naming policy > >> >that sort of imposes the long name... so if we p

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

2011-03-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 09:54:49AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >I think so. The package with long names tend to follow a naming policy >> >that sort of imposes the long name... so if we put a too-short limit >> >then we're asking them to

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

2011-03-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 06:16:12PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: >On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:56:22 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> >Right, that's certainly true for the lib.*-perl packages, and I >> >wouldn't know how we should rename them in a sane way. >> In the worst case that I'm looking at, I'm

Re: Splitting large game data packages?

2011-03-31 Thread Mark Hymers
On Wed, 30, Mar, 2011 at 06:58:54PM +0100, Simon McVittie spoke thus.. > Hi, > I've been considering splitting up openarena-data (currently 314MB source, > 345MB binary) into multiple source packages. openarena would still have to > depend on all of them (you need the complete set for network compa