Re: Regularly updating data files
On Fri, 2014-04-04 at 15:33 +0200, Ole Streicher wrote:
> Hi,
>
> for an astronomy library package, there is a data library needed to be
> downloaded. This data files are updated ~weekly; however I have the
> feeling that most updates are really minor.
Isn't this the sort of thing that stable-updates (and testing-updates)
is intended for? cf. https://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110215
https://wiki.debian.org/StableUpdates
> The question is now how to model this in Debian. I see three ways here:
>
> * provide a package that contains the data and update this on a regular
> base. Disadvantage is that the package is not updated on stable and
> other releases (Ubuntu), so it will be outdated probably already when
> the release is published
A separate package for the "volatile" data would be the right solution,
if stable-updates is the right mechanism.
Drew
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