Bug#171314: uqm

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 07:37:36AM -0700, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote:

> I am doubtful that this package will ever land in the archive though as I
> have heard some second-hand disparaging comments about the size (300Mb) of
> the package from ftp-admins. Maybe it shouldn't be in debian; I'm not
> sure.
> 
> At any rate, it has now been sitting in the queue for a month. 
> 
> I have been considering replacing the uqm-voice and uqm-music packages
> with a set of scripts which simply fetch the the datafiles from the
> upstream website and install them. This way it would be more palatable to
> the ftp-admins at a size of 20Mb. But, I would rather not since this would
> make debian's uqm vulnerable to breakage by upstream moving or changing
> the data.

Assuming that the game itself does not depend on the voice and music
packages (and it should not, as they are completely optional) this should
not prevent the core game from entering the archive, which should be about
20M as you say.  There is at least precedent for games of approximately that
size.

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 - mdz