Re: Data does NOT belong in Debian (was: Stop Archive bloat)

1999-10-19 Thread Zygo Blaxell
On 18 Oct 1999 18:16:58 -0700, Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I think we need a policy on "pure data" packages. Start by defining what a "pure data" package is. Here's my humble attempt: "pure data packages are packages which consist of minimal debian/rules which simply re-package a

Re: Data does NOT belong in Debian (was: Stop Archive bloat)

1999-10-20 Thread Zygo Blaxell
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999 14:06:50 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: >On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 11:00:14PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 09:43:57PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote: >> > Why not allow Source only packages ? >> That will win nothing. You can't use apt-get on them, hav