On 9/14/20 9:04 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: >> If you really need those data please create a separate source package > That's the question that I'm repeatedly wondering about and thats why I > assemble all these three rejects here in one mail: What is the general > opinion for creating a separate source package in cases like this. I > do not see any profit from an extra source package.
I very much see it. Typically, if the data aren't changing, you'll be uploading the orig tarball once, and then maybe iterate a little bit on the packaging of them. On the other hand, if you are shipping large files in the debian/ folder, then each and every tiny little change in the packaging means you'll be uploaded a new huge debian.tar file. This is useless bandwidth for all the mirrors, and so much data to waste in snapshot.d.o and so on. I am in the opinion that TA is right, though it may mean more work for you on the other hand. Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)
