Best practices for downloader packages
Hi,
I want to create a package that purely downloads some (large scientific)
data, and I am unsure how to create the package:
* Shall it be native? There is no "local" upstream code, so the
directory is just empty (except the debian/ subdir). However, "native"
may not the best mark to it, since the package ist not really a
debian-only one (the data may be used elsewhere as well).
However, when it is not native, I must create a dummy/empty
.orig.tar.gz, right?
* Shall I use the word "downloader" in the package name? That would make
the package name longer: In the moment, the packages would have names
like "astrometry-data-4208-4219"; putting a "downloader" would make
them even longer.
* Do I need to specify the copyright of the *downloaded* files? If yes,
where? debian/copyright is just for the source, not for the result...
* Since the download code if DFSG-Free, the downloader goes to contrib,
independently of the copyright of the data, right?
Best regards
Ole
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