On 01/12/2012 04:31 AM, David Paleino wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:51:41 +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 11:34:41AM +0100, David Paleino wrote: >>> On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:59:55 +0100, David Paleino wrote: >>> >>>> Hello people, >>>> I intend to package some shapefiles [..] >> >> Once upon a time... someone proposed data.debian.org for packaging such kind >> of information. Still in a limbo AFAIK. That said, I see no problems in >> packaging relevant data (but what about size ?). > > Do you mean archive-size, or installed-size? If the latter, I see no problems: > the only overhead would be the Debian-specific files (copyright, > changelog.Debian, and so on). If you meant archive-size, those are usually > arch:all packages, and I'm not aware of any "size policy" for data packages. > Just think at those *-data for games :)
What would be nice about data.debian.org (or similar) would be that the data files could be volatile - i.e. not tied to a specific release throughout the release cycle. But I realize that that's beyond the scope of what you're asking about here. I'm happy to see these shapefiles being packaged. Cheers, tony -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
