Bug#38902: PROPOSED] data section
On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 07:33:03PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> A few additional rules for your consideration:
>
> - The data directory shouldn't be synced to debian releases, and ought
> to be paralled to dists, not main/contrib/non-free.
> (Since there are no executables, what's the benefit of syncing it, with
> the presumed multiplying of size and hassle? If a dataset needs a particular
> program or version, a simple dependency should be enough.)
I thought about this... but in the case of a format change, a reader would
have to be downloaded out of unstable (if you have a stable dist) or the
data would have to wait until unstable is stablized. If there is no change
in the data, then symlinks should suffice to not create a duplicate of
data. Espcially if they DON'T change very often.
> A thought: Do we need to keep a source archive separate from the .deb?
> Almost all of these package are effectively their own source, and since
> we are talking about large datasets, the burden of keeping both seems
> unnecessary. Before you light up the flamethrower, I'm not promoting the
> idea of not releasing source. But consider a package that is basically
> a reproduction of a website. Do we really need two 7Mb packages who's
> fundamental difference is that they unpack into a different location?
> Instead, we could make the .debs act like installers, except that
> they would grab the external archive from the CD or via http. Or have
> a /usr/doc/<package>/debian, whose rules file has a way to copy the
> installed data into a new tree in order to rebuild the package.
Very good point. From what I understand, ammendments to proposals should
be "convince the proposer" so if you agree with this, steve, consider me
convinced to amend as follows:
- Data debs should include all files from the original, upstream source
installed into proper directories for Debian's requirements. So being,
a seperate source archive need not be kept.
>
> Steve
>
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