Bug#557218: nexuiz-data does not fit on a single CD

Bruno Kleinert fuddl at tauware.de
Tue Nov 24 16:54:51 UTC 2009


Am Sonntag, den 22.11.2009, 01:16 +0100 schrieb Stefano Zacchiroli:
> BTW, the rationale from my initially high severity was because I
> personally consider a serious issue for a package not to be able to be
> delivered to users that are still bound to use CDs. As long as we have
> CDs as a medium to distribute our distro, I believe we should be able to
> make packages fit on them. But of course it is not my call, and Rhonda
> is right in stating that it is written nowhere that packages should
> actually fit on CDs. My main point was raising the attention on this
> issue.
From my point of view, that argument is absolutely valid so there's no
reason to apologize ;)

> As far as this bug is concerned, and as long as there is no specific
> decision on the matter, feel free to set the severity of this bug to
> what pleases the maintainer.
> 
> And of course thanks to Bruno which has worked on the package split,
> this bug will be fixed/moot any time soon apparently.
If it had not been quite easy to split the package, I'd preferred to
blacklist it for CD-ROMs because of the assumption that the user's
computer is likely to be too outdated/old to enjoy nexuiz anyways.

> Sorry for the noise,
No it's OK! Thanks for pointing out that obvious "bug" I didn't realize
*selfslap* ;)

Cheers - Fuddl
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