Tobias Frost writes: > my 2 cents: debian/ should not be used for much data: It will be duplicated > by the upload > of every package revision. So (being extreme now), having several hundreds of > MiB would > be quite expensive in terms of storage overheade. > > I have not idea how much "much data" is, for sure to be defined by FTP > masters. > > For another 2 cents, if data would exceed the size of the debian.tar.gz by a > magnitude or two, I would go for a source package. > > Summing up to 6 cents, my feeling is that storing data in debian/ is not the > best > approach. Have you talked to upstream to include the data in their source. > After all, > this would benefit the whole community if upstream has a good test suite?
The 3.0 (quilt) source format also supports using several upstream source tarballs. Firefox uses this for shipping source for the program (firefox_X.orig.tar) and translations (firefox_X-l10n-*.tar). Ansgar (not having looked into this issue before)
