Byte swapped /usr/share?

[Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org>]

Hi all,

again a question for large data files (and still the same packages [1] :-) )

I need to package some large (~80MB) data files with a machine dependent
byte order.

How should I do this?

* Creating machine dependent data files (arch=ANY) is obviously wasting
  Debian server space. Also, all big endian archs would share the same files.

* Putting files for all endianesses into the same package would also
  waste Debian server, but also local disk space.

* Swapping them during install would destroy the checksum of the files,
  so they are no longer verifyable.

* The program itself (astrometry.net) would be quite difficult to change
  so that it can handle other than natural byte orders, and this also
  would be a perfomance problem. However, I opened an issue for that [2].

Best regards

Ole

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/795933
[2] https://github.com/dstndstn/astrometry.net/issues/66