Re: Newer vegastrike : can we package that big ?
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Vincent Fourmond <fourmond@debian.org> wrote:
> As the packaging of vegastrike's new upstream version fixing all the 7
> bugs against the current version is going on, I wanted to download the
> corresponding data (though one of the developers told me it should work
> with old data as well).
>
> The problem is, the final tarball weights 500MB, with an installed
> size of nearly 1GB, which is twice as big as the biggest package
> currently in the archive. The current vegastrike-data weights 310MB
> installed-size, 157MB debian package (plus 70MB for vegastrike-music).
>
> What shall I do ? Can we distribute such as huge game ? We have
> several options:
Ftpmasters, what is your opinion about such huge packages?
Please see the thread for more information:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-games/2008/04/threads.html#00044
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