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Re: Data does NOT belong in Debian (was: Stop Archive bloat)



> Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> writes:
> 
> >   1) The way the Debian archive works requires the data to be stored
> >      twice (source package and .deb).
> 
> Why not allow Source only packages ?

Or have a small .deb which installs the data and the data as a
tar.gz/tar.bz2 file which is symlinked from source or something like
that?

   Julian

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  Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
        Debian GNU/Linux Developer,  see http://www.debian.org/~jdg


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