Re: documentation package: quid large (if not huge) data examples ?
Hello Tobias,
thanks for your prompt reply.
On 26/10/14 07:47, Tobias Hansen wrote:
> Hi Jerome,
>
> if you know the license for these files and they're distributable in
> Debian,
These data files look like common sample used in the computing image
communauty or somethin. They are raw data files.
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 sounds as a good approach.
This is also done for some games, e.g. 0ad.
I have not thought to look in this area.
>
> BTW how huge are we talking?
about 14 MiB uncompressed, about 6 MiB once compressed (xz -9e)
If they're really huge maybe it's better
> just to say somewhere how to get the files.
The google work was really a work: these files come from the last century,
and they where grabbed from forgotten (and obscure) place of the web.
Best wishes,
Jerome
>
> 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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