Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 14:00 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >> the Debian CD team (in the person of Steve McIntyre) has noted the >> enormous size of nexuiz-data, which means the package won't fit on a >> single CD. I'm setting severity serious because this de facto means the >> package cannot be distributed to our CD users. I agree that the severity >> can be controversial since we have other ways of distributing packages; >> feel free to downgrade, better if after discussion with the release team >> (even better by reducing the size ;-)) > > This is silly. I haven't seen bug reports about packages not fitting in > diskettes, and it would not make any sense if they were filed! =). > > The world moved on, CDs are getting too small. It's a technical > limitation which can be overcome by using the network, or bigger media, > such as DVDs. While I think blacklisting the package for CDs is a > pragmatical decision, making the package smaller should be just > desirable, not a (specially RC!) bug.
Ack. People which use computers which did not came with a DVD reader built in are probably not able to play nexuiz anyway as it needs a pretty fastCPU and graphics card to be fun :) -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
