I have two extremely large source packages, urbanterror-data (712MB) and worldofpadman-data (650MB). From what I understand this may cause problems having these packages included in Debian and due to packages this large becoming increasingly common (see recent versions of vegastrike and alien-arena for example), I believe its time for clarification on this. First off, is there a hard limit on file-size of packages and if so, what is it? Secondly, what would be the prospect of packages this large ever making it into Debian, although non-essential games are still important to increasing widespread usage of not just Debian, but GNU/Linux systems in general, and if maintainers of large packages like these are continually faced with difficulties in getting packages accepted, due solely to file-size, this may cause problems. Clarification on these issues would be greatly appreciated and would greatly help with future packaging efforts. Please note that I have also sent this message to the debian-devel-games mailing list for further discussion. Thanks for your time, Jack Coulter
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