Re: Best practices for downloader packages

2015-08-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 03:47:13PM +0200, Ole Streicher a écrit : After lunch, someone pointed out that the policy only requires that packages that download *software* need to go to contrib. Since my one would download *data* only, it would be probably suitable for main. Hi Ole, I doubt

Re: Best practices for downloader packages

2015-08-18 Thread Albino B Neto
2015-08-16 14:17 GMT-03:00 Ole Streicher oleb...@debian.org: I want to create a package that purely downloads some (large scientific) data, and I am unsure how to create the package: I am needing do downgrade PHP 5.6.9 to 5.3.10 on Debian 8.1, I am with problems still no solution. :-( Help ?

Re: Best practices for downloader packages

2015-08-18 Thread Ole Streicher
Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl writes: On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 01:29:12PM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: * Since the download code if DFSG-Free, the downloader goes to contrib, independently of the copyright of the data, right? Right. which is a bit pity, since the package *is*

Re: Best practices for downloader packages

2015-08-17 Thread Ole Streicher
Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org writes: * Ole Streicher oleb...@debian.org, 2015-08-16, 19:17: * Shall it be native? There is no local upstream code, so the directory is just empty (except the debian/ subdir). However, native may not the best mark to it, since the package ist not really a

Re: Best practices for downloader packages

2015-08-17 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 01:29:12PM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: * Since the download code if DFSG-Free, the downloader goes to contrib, independently of the copyright of the data, right? Right. which is a bit pity, since the package *is* actually DFSG-free, including the downloaded

Best practices for downloader packages

2015-08-16 Thread Ole Streicher
Hi, I want to create a package that purely downloads some (large scientific) data, and I am unsure how to create the package: * Shall it be native? There is no local upstream code, so the directory is just empty (except the debian/ subdir). However, native may not the best mark to it, since

Re: Best practices for downloader packages

2015-08-16 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Ole Streicher oleb...@debian.org, 2015-08-16, 19:17: * Shall it be native? There is no local upstream code, so the directory is just empty (except the debian/ subdir). However, native may not the best mark to it, since the package ist not really a debian-only one (the data may be used