I am moving [1] to NMU a big non-free package, w3-recs [2][3], last updated five years ago. During the last five years, upstream has grown, both in volume [4] and in scope [5], for legitimate reasons. The new *.orig.tar.gz or *.orig.tar.xz would be about 200 GiB in size, six times what it is now.
1: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=836943
2: https://packages.debian.org/sid/w3-recs
3: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/w3-recs
4: https://www.w3.org/TR/tr-date-all
5: https://www.w3.org/TR/html51/references.html#references
The NMUed package would rank among the top 50 in size,
might be the second biggest non-free package in stretch, and
would be by far the heaviest upload I had ever made.
That's a lot for an NMU.
Unfortunately, without an NMU, this package would not be very
useful to stretch users.
I'd do what I could to trim the size, but this NMU will be big
no matter what I do.
Advice? Objections?
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