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Packaging task for newbies: Separate pink-pony into program and data



Hi,

Ive just uploaded pink-pony 1.3.1-1 to Debian [1] [2], and I've noticed that I should have separated the packages in program and data [3], instead of having it all packaged into one single package. The main advantage of that approach -usually done with games and with other programs that have considerable architecture-independent data- is that the space occupied in the mirrors is much less.

I was considering fixing it myself and doing a newer upload, but I thought about what we were talking at DebConf about being able to provide reasonably easy tasks for people who are starting, so there it goes. If anyone is willing to do it, they will of course count with my help and my time, and -obviously- I will be available for doing the upload to the archive.

Greetings and thanks,
Miry


[1] https://code.google.com/p/pink-pony/
[2] http://packages.debian.org/pink-pony
[3] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-archindepdata

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