Re: libcifpp

[Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 05:03:06PM +0200, Maarten L. Hekkelman wrote:
> Op 29-09-2021 om 15:15 schreef Nilesh Patra:
> 
> > > Everyone and their grandmother is currently working on getting libcifpp through the ballot. Very much appreciated. But I just managed to release version 2.0.
> > 
> > You can move your changes into salsa if you like, but do not upload to unstable until the one from new is accepted.
> I just committed my changes to salsa, however, this is not building yet.
> 
> Problem is, the current build process tries to download a huge CCD file
> (components.cif) and this somehow fails since ...

... you are not permitted to download anything while building the package.

> in the debian package building
> environment the directories are perhaps mapped differently.
> 
> Anyway, question is if this file should be downloaded at all. The package
> now comes with a separate libcifpp-data package containing the script to
> update this and other data files.

You are the only one who can answer the question whether the download is
needed.
 
> Should I add a call to this update script in the post install hook? Having
> 500MB of data in Debian that's probably updated the very next day after
> installation seems very inconvenient, right?

I'm not sure whether we have example solutions here.  But this kind of
volatile data should probably not be part of a package.

Kind regards

    Andreas. 

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