>> I'm sorry but I need to temporarily reject your package, as it is by far the >> largest currently sitting in the NEW queue and ftp-master is currently >> running >> low on disc space.
>> I didn't had the time to investigate your package (beside seeing that it is >> the >> largest in the NEW queue and rejecting it would reduce the size of NEW by >> more >> than a half!). > If I make a version without the -doc binary, that takes it from 859 to > 235 MiB including .orig.tar.gz. (The -doc binary has a huge amount of > very large generated documentation...) Does that reduce it's size > enough to consider re-uploading? Yes. > I can appreciate the burden of checking a package of this size. In this case it wasnt about checking it at all. "Only" about the sheer size and the fact that ftpmaster does have some space issues. > But It's taken a good-sized team a few months of concerted effort to get > this far (development actually started about two and a half years ago), > and we'd like to be able to use the BTS to track the various issues with > the package, among other concerns. Oh sure, of course. >> A better solution is currently being worked on, but might need some time. >> Once >> we have a) a new ftp-master server or b) archieved the etch release, you can >> reupload your package. > Makes sense. But if the above isn't sufficient reduction in the package > size, how will we know when this happens? The archive of the etch release will get a message to d-d-a or so. :) Also, we are getting new hardware for ftpmaster, which has much more diskspace too, and which will finally allow us to setup data.debian.org. Your package, at least the -doc part, seems a good target for that. -- bye, Joerg [ New Maintainer Prozess ] <panthera> ein jahr ist ein bisschen zu optimistisch, <_rene_> panthera: kommt auf den NM/AM an. /* _rene_ ist pantheras AM und lässt sich mit pantheras package check schon ein wenig Zeit ;) */ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87d3x9ps5c....@delenn.ganneff.de