Re: Re: Question about proper archive area for packages that require big data for operation

2013-04-24 Thread Laszlo Kajan
Hello Simon! Thank you for these suggestions. On 24/04/13 13:06, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 23/04/13 10:48, Laszlo Kajan wrote: >> free packages that depend on big (e.g. >400MB) free data outside 'main' > > This comes up in the Games Team, too. > > Here are some possibilities you might not have

Re: Question about proper archive area for packages that require big data for operation

2013-04-24 Thread Simon McVittie
On 23/04/13 10:48, Laszlo Kajan wrote: > free packages that depend on big (e.g. >400MB) free data outside 'main' This comes up in the Games Team, too. Here are some possibilities you might not have considered: * Package a small "demo" data-set (enough to test that the package is working correc

Re: Question about proper archive area for packages that require big data for operation

2013-04-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 09:32:52AM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Le mardi, 23 avril 2013 12.23:23, Andreas Tille a écrit : > > I would even go that far that it might make sense to package these data > > and upload it to demonstrate that we should *really* create a solution > > for such cases

Re: Question about proper archive area for packages that require big data for operation

2013-04-24 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mardi, 23 avril 2013 12.23:23, Andreas Tille a écrit : > I would even go that far that it might make sense to package these data > and upload it to demonstrate that we should *really* create a solution > for such cases if they will increase in the number and size of data > packages. Isn't that

Re: Question about proper archive area for packages that require big data for operation

2013-04-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Laszlo Kajan writes: > This email is to continue the discussion about free packages that depend > on big (e.g. >400MB) free data outside 'main'. These packages apparently > violate policy 2.2.1 [0] for inclusion in 'main' because they require > software outside the 'main' area to function. They d

Re: Question about proper archive area for packages that require big data for operation

2013-04-23 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:48:05AM +0200, Laszlo Kajan wrote: > > This email is to continue the discussion about free packages that depend on > big (e.g. >400MB) free data outside 'main'. In your practical case is this data say <500MB? Are we talking about compressed or uncompressed data (= >40