[Debtags-devel] Re: where to post future data updates

[Giacomo A. Catenazzi]

Hello!



Thaddeus H. Black wrote:
> From where should the debram(1) man page tell a
> user to download future data updates?


> From where shall a user get a data update?
> Options:
> 
>   (a) From my own web site.  However, tying
>       stable Debian usage to a personal web site
>       seems poor policy in principle.  What if I
>       were hit by a truck?  The man page would
>       stay in circulation but the web site would
>       disappear.
> 
>   (b) From the files area on alioth.  However,
>       this seems abusive of alioth, which is a
>       rally point for development not a download
>       mirror.
> 
>   (c) From the mirrors in the form of the
>       debram-data source package.  The user
>       would unpack the source, get the data
>       file `debram.txt', and put the latter
>       wherever he wanted it.  However, debram(1)
>       is a simple program usable by novices, for
>       whom such a procedure seems too complex.
> 
>   (d) From some other place I have not thought
>       of yet.  Maybe you can think of it.
> 

I see no problem with (a). If "you were hit by a truck",
we (Debian) should change the maintainer, so a upload
is needed. It is not optimal for stable releases.

(c): you can implement a script to that.
see 'apt-file update'.

(d): sourceforge site. You should create a project and
that you can use the sf infrastructure.


IMHO, the 3 variant are equivalent, so you should choose the 
better/easier variant for you.