Hi Ole, please have a look at what https://wiki.debian.org/getData can possibly do for you.
An idea about how your package could possibly look like you find here http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-med/trunk/packages/autodocksuite/trunk/debian/autodock-getdata.install?view=markup Best, Steffen > Gesendet: Freitag, 24. Juli 2015 um 11:43 Uhr > Von: "Ole Streicher" <oleb...@debian.org> > An: "Debian Bug Tracking System" <sub...@bugs.debian.org> > Betreff: Bug#793464: astrometry-data-2mass -- Star catalogs for > astrometry.net from 2MASS > > Package: wnpp > Owner: Ole Streicher <oleb...@debian.org> > Severity: wishlist > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org,debian-as...@lists.debian.org > > * Package name : astrometry-data-2mass > Version : 4200 > Upstream Author : Dustin Lang > * URL : http://data.astrometry.net/ > * License : GPL > Description : Star catalogs for astrometry.net from 2MASS > Astrometry.net needs complete catalogs of star positions, which > are provided with several resolutions in these packages. > > The uncompressed size of these catalogs upstream ranges from > 129 kBytes (1000 stars) to ~15 GB (200 million stars), with > roughly doubling the number of stars with each step. Since it > is not useful to put flood the Debian archive with Milky Way > stars, I started a discussion on debian-devel [1]. However, until > there is a good solution, I would package a subset (total ~120 MB), > which overs about 3 million stars. I still have no idea about the > best way to split it into subpackages; probably I would combine the > smallest catalogs into one 8 MB package, and then have one larger > catalog per package (8 MB, 15 MB, 30 MB, 60 MB). > > Best regards > > Ole > > The package will be maintained within the Debian Astronomy Team. > > Best regards > > Ole > > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/07/msg00314.html > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/55b208db.5050...@debian.org > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
