Hello Andreas! On 23/04/13 12:23, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:48:05AM +0200, Laszlo Kajan wrote: >> >> This email is to continue the discussion about free packages that depend on >> big (e.g. >400MB) free data outside 'main'. > > In your practical case is this data say <500MB? Are we talking about > compressed or uncompressed data (= >400MB on users harddisk or on all > Debian mirrors world-wide)?
It is around 404MB, gzip compressed [1]. I think it is not arch independent. I think BLAST databases (the main bulk in the tar.gz) are sensitive to the size of int, and endian-ness. [1] ftp://rostlab.org/metastudent/metastudent-data_1.0.0.tar.gz > We do actually have examples of >500MB binary packages: > > udd@ullmann:/srv/mirrors/debian$ find . -type f -size +500M -name "*.deb" > ./pool/main/f/freefoam/freefoam-dev-doc_0.1.0+dfsg-1_all.deb > ./pool/main/libr/libreoffice/libreoffice-dbg_4.0.3~rc1-3_amd64.deb > ./pool/main/libr/libreoffice/libreoffice-dbg_4.0.3~rc1-3_kfreebsd-amd64.deb > ./pool/main/libr/libreoffice/libreoffice-dbg_4.0.3~rc1-2_amd64.deb > ./pool/main/libr/libreoffice/libreoffice-dbg_4.0.3~rc1-2_kfreebsd-amd64.deb > ./pool/main/n/ns3/ns3-doc_3.16+dfsg1-1_all.deb > ./pool/main/n/ns3/ns3-doc_3.15+dfsg-1_all.deb > ./pool/main/w/webkitgtk/libwebkit2gtk-3.0-0-dbg_1.11.91-1_amd64.deb > ./pool/non-free/r/redeclipse-data/redeclipse-data_1.4-1_all.deb > > Even if the topic should be clarified in general because we will > certainly have larger data sets than this in the future I could imagine > that packaging this very data in your case should not be the main > problem under the current circumstances as long there is no better > solution found. > > I would even go that far that it might make sense to package these data > and upload it to demonstrate that we should *really* create a solution > for such cases if they will increase in the number and size of data > packages. All right, we will package and upload the big data in case no one thinks of a better solution and discussion dies in, say, a week. Laszlo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/517675d3.3030...@rostlab.org
