[Debian-med-packaging] Seeking Advice on 2.7G Package Data

[Laszlo Kajan]

Thank you Olivier, Steffen and Charles!

I followed Oliver's original advice to ask the user to download the database, because of its simplicity and non-dependency. The process is
described on the man page. The tool attempts to download the database automatically when used.

Our student has to polish it some more before it is ready for Debian. She has some binary there with no sources, statically linked to
everything... Once this is solved, we will upload.

Best regards,

Laszlo

On 08/10/12 15:17, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 01:58:33PM +0200, Laszlo Kajan a écrit :
>>
>>   2: Create a loctree2-data-installer package that downloads the large data
>>   upon installation, flashplugin-installer style. I am worried this may be
>>   problematic for automatic testers (piuparts) at Debian, because of the
>>   large data it moves. Do I need to worry about this? Also I don't know how
>>   this behaves with interrupted downloads (continuing the download should be
>>   supported).
> 
> Dear Laszlo,
> 
> you already had good suggestions from Steffen, but if you look for
> automated testing, you will probably need to go for proper packages
> like in 2) above.
> 
> Note that I am not sure if network is available in piuparts tests.  However,
> there might be a better chance with autopkgtest (see http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep8/).
> 
> Cheers,
>