Re: documentation package: quid large (if not huge) data examples ?
Hi Jerome,
if you know the license for these files and they're distributable in
Debian, I think the best way is the following:
Put them into a second source package and let the doc package recommend
or depend on the image package. This means that reuploading and
downloading of the same files and taking up more space on snapshots etc
only happens when the images change and not for every update of the
tachyon package. This is also done for some games, e.g. 0ad.
BTW how huge are we talking? If they're really huge maybe it's better
just to say somewhere how to get the files.
Best,
Tobias
Am 26.10.2014 um 01:40 schrieb Jerome BENOIT:
> Hello List,
>
> I am currently packaging tachyon [1]:
> the upstream source ball comes with some demo C sources and some input samples
> that manipulate images. A couple of those images are large (if not huge) and,
> as such, they are not distributed within the source tar ball: after some google
> work, I finally grab them from the internet. After all, what is a sample or a demo
> if we can not play with it. Now, I am wondering if these grabbed images may be distributed
> within the Debian package. What is the custom for that kind of matter ?
>
> Thanks,
> Jerome
>
>
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=764433
>
>
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