On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 10:05:45AM -0400, Michael Hanke wrote: > Dear Debian scientists, > > > I want to resurrect the discussion about dataset packaging in Debian. I > believe the latest state is reflected by this document: > > http://ftp-master.debian.org/wiki/projects/data/ > > Although it makes the impression that everything is already done, I > don't know if that is actually true. Does anyone know about the current > state of this effort? I don't know. But given that data.debian.org doesn't resolve, I'd guess that nothing is set up. The wiki page you reference suggests it is an ftpmaster team consensus position, so I cc them now. Maybe someone there can chime in. > Ideally, we could come up with a mini-policy for dataset packages. It > should not be overengineered, but it might cover things like: > > - package naming, e.g. 'dataset-<meaningful name>' > - predictable and common location in the filesystem (maybe it should make > it easy for an admin to relocate all packaged datasets to a dedicated storage > device) > - some grouping by purpose (although many datasets can be used for > different things) or type of data (MRI, pictures, sound > databases, genome, ...) I like all these suggestions. I don't have a strong position on how to arrange the data, but my gut feeling is to use a single root under which it is grouped by purpose as you suggest, leading to /usr/share/data/<group>, for example. Regards, -Steve
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