Hi all, again a question for large data files (and still the same packages [1] :-) )
I need to package some large (~80MB) data files with a machine dependent byte order. How should I do this? * Creating machine dependent data files (arch=ANY) is obviously wasting Debian server space. Also, all big endian archs would share the same files. * Putting files for all endianesses into the same package would also waste Debian server, but also local disk space. * Swapping them during install would destroy the checksum of the files, so they are no longer verifyable. * The program itself (astrometry.net) would be quite difficult to change so that it can handle other than natural byte orders, and this also would be a perfomance problem. However, I opened an issue for that [2]. Best regards Ole [1] http://bugs.debian.org/795933 [2] https://github.com/dstndstn/astrometry.net/issues/66
