Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 3 Jun 1999 22:30:54 +0000 Received: (qmail 14661 invoked from network); 3 Jun 1999 22:30:52 -0000 Received: from dhcp008.53.lvcm.com (HELO darren.benham.net) (mail@24.234.53.8) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 3 Jun 1999 22:30:52 -0000 Received: from gecko by darren.benham.net with local (Exim 2.11 #1 (Debian-home)) id 10pfz2-0000Mu-00; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:29:08 -0700 Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:29:08 -0700 From: "Darren O. Benham" To: submit@bugs.debian.org Subject: [PROPOSED] data section Message-ID: <19990603152908.M31520@darren.benham.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i Sender: "Darren O. Benham" Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist This is Fabian's proposal with a few modifications. The last proposal was not put into the BTS and then there was talk of waiting for Wichert's proposal. I've talked with our DPL and he doesn't have one.. not on this topic. So.. here it is again and formally proposed according to Manoj's scheme. Some of this text comes from an email I received from Richard Kreckel. Since there is interest in packaging census data, maps, genome data and other huge datasets I and since most people agreed that dropping them in main or contrib is not a great idea, I propose the creation of a data section to reside along side of main, contrib and non-free. The data section would be governed by the following rules: - No package can depend on a package in data. - No package with an executable can go into data unless it is useable ONLY with a dataset in data. - The maintainer decision on this subject is just the same as with the Section: field. It's a suggestion that can be override by the archive maintainer. - Only DFSG free datasets are alowed in data. There is no non-free section of data and contrib does not make sense when applied to datasets. To that end, datasets can not depend on anything in contrib or non-free. - Datasets that currently have no DFSG-free viewer are still DFSG-free if the license to that data is DFSG-free. reason: - The data subdirectory is an entire part of Debian. Its purpose is to let the CD vendors/archives maintainers/users choice between a Debian Light who fit on a reasonable amount of CDs, and an Debian Extended who can fill your entire RAID array. -- Please cc all mailing list replies to me, also. ========================================================================= * http://benham.net/index.html <>< * * -------------------- * -----------------------------------------------* * Debian Developer, Debian Project Secretary, Debian Webmaster * * * * * =========================================================================