Re: Huge data files in Debian

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org>, 2015-07-17, 10:34:
> But: These packages sum up to ~25 GB, with the maximal package size of 
> 3.5 GB.

Well, that's a lot. Just as data points:

* The biggest binary package currently in the archive, 
ns3-doc_3.17+dfsg-1_all.deb, is only ~1GB.

* The biggest source package, nvidia-cuda-toolkit_6.0.37-5, is only 
~1.5GB.


I'm afraid you might need to wait for the advent of data.d.o:
https://lists.debian.org/87tzgm6yee.fsf@vorlon.ganneff.de
(mind the typo: s/2 weeks/10 years/)

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Jakub Wilk