On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 01:58:33AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 06:28:53PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Le Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 10:09:07AM +0200, Michael Hanke a ?crit : > > > My question is now: Is it reasonable to provide this rather huge amount > > > of data in a package in the archive? > > many thanks for bringing this crucial question on -devel. In my field, I > > wish that it would be possible to apt-get install the human genome for > > instance. > > Are either of you going to debconf, or able to point out some example > large (free?) data sets that should be packaged like this as a test case > for playing with over debconf? No, I'm not going to Debconf, but here is an example package (arch:all) to play with (approx. 150MB):
http://apsy.gse.uni-magdeburg.de/~hanke/bigpack/caret-data_5.5~dfsg.1-1.dsc or if you prefer the (repackaged) orig tarball only http://apsy.gse.uni-magdeburg.de/~hanke/bigpack/caret-data_5.5~dfsg.1.orig.tar.gz FYI: this is among other stuff a stereotaxic brain atlas. The data is GPL licensed, but for some reason (I guess user-tracking) upstream requires everyone to register prior to download. It is a little strange, but this is the current situation. Therefore uscan doesn't work -- the watch file doesn't list the login/password. I'm trying to convince upstream to get rid of the registration requirement rather than impolitely bypassing it by putting it in the watchfile. Anyway, that should not matter for this purpose. Thanks for working on this problem, Michael -- GPG key: 1024D/3144BE0F Michael Hanke http://apsy.gse.uni-magdeburg.de/hanke ICQ: 48230050
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