Re: Is there a size limit for a package?

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Yves Arrouye wrote:

> Hi,

Hi Yves,

> I've been away from the Debian project for a couple years, but I'm now able
> to come back and start packaging things again. I wonder if there is still a
> size limit on packages? I want to package the ICU Unicode and I18N library,
> and the resulting package right now is ~3.6 Mb. is that considered
> reasonable or should I try to split it?

there seems to be no size limit on packages and there are packages that
are much bigger:

$ apt-cache show doc-rfc  
Package: doc-rfc
Priority: optional
Section: doc
Installed-Size: 23288
Maintainer: Kai Henningsen <kai@debian.org>
Version: 2000.08-1
Architecture: all
Size: 20976574
...

> Thanks,
> YA

cu,
Adrian

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