Re: Question regarding large -data packages
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:44:56 -0500 Scott Howard wrote:
> Hello,
>
> With the great help of my sponsor, Steffen Moeller, I have recently
> packaged "Sandbox Game Maker" [1] as a contrib package for the game
> engine and non-free package as the game data. The game engine has been
> uploaded and is in sid [2]. We have not uploaded the -data package yet
> [3] since it is 200 MB and we are concerned about having such a large
> package in the debian mirrors.
>
> We have two options, and would like to know your opinion and
> experience on what is the best way to handle it:
>
> 1) Just upload the large package (similar to alien-arena and
> alien-arena-data, which is also contrib/non-free).
this is the ideal approach. the only consequence is that it won't be
included on the debian cd's if the package is larger than 300 MiB. it
will still be included on dvd's, blueray's, and network mirrors.
mike
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