data section! [was: Re: Censoring :) (was: Re: anarchism_7.7-1.deb)]
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 02:23:03PM +0200, Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
> Scavenging the mail folder uncovered Siggy Brentrup's letter:
> > There should be one for the main distribution. Assume I want to go
> > into the CD business providing support for packages in the main
> > dist.
> >
> > The way it is, I can't say "Support for all of Debian's main dist".
>
> I don't know the answer but having non-doc (in the sense of
> non-application-that-is-in-main-doc) stuff is bad. What if I package
> the 3 CD set of US maps that is publicy available? That is about 1.8Gb
> of sources plus 1.8Gb of .debs for about 3.6Gb of ftp space... and
> nobody can tell me don't do that!
>
> What about having Debian be an OS+apps and have SPI found a *new*
> association for the distribution of free *data*?
We are already doing that - the proposal on the policy list regarding
a new, data section of the FTP server has passed.
Hopefully, it will be implemented in practice soon.
--
enJoy -*/\*- don't even try to pronounce my first name
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