Re: How much data load is acceptable in debian/ dir and upstream
Tobias Frost writes:
> my 2 cents: debian/ should not be used for much data: It will be duplicated by the upload
> of every package revision. So (being extreme now), having several hundreds of MiB would
> be quite expensive in terms of storage overheade.
>
> I have not idea how much "much data" is, for sure to be defined by FTP masters.
>
> For another 2 cents, if data would exceed the size of the debian.tar.gz by a
> magnitude or two, I would go for a source package.
>
> Summing up to 6 cents, my feeling is that storing data in debian/ is not the best
> approach. Have you talked to upstream to include the data in their source. After all,
> this would benefit the whole community if upstream has a good test suite?
The 3.0 (quilt) source format also supports using several upstream
source tarballs. Firefox uses this for shipping source for the program
(firefox_X.orig.tar) and translations (firefox_X-l10n-*.tar).
Ansgar (not having looked into this issue before)
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