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Re: Packaging scientific datasets for Debian



Le Mon, May 10, 2010 at 06:05:04AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert a écrit :
> On 12109 March 1977, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> >>   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.
> 
> We are waiting for hardware with enouggh diskspace. This is aboout there
> (ftpmaster.d.o replacement).

Hello Jörg,

I read in http://ftp-master.debian.org/wiki/projects/data/ that the data
archive will require full source uploads. But if the source package is not a
simple downloader, this will duplicate the data and double the size of the
upload and the archive. Would it be possible to accept binary-only uploads? I
ask the question in particular because with one of our tools, getData, I am
considering to produce binary pakcages from scratch (or with a helper tool like
equivs, for instance). That way, the data package can originate from a signed
official package distributed in the main archive, but does not need a Debian
source package.

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan 


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