There requirements are... where did you get them anyway? I bet this is as bull as the recommendation to use GTK2 and Python2 for apps targeting Ubuntu. Don't believe a word at developer.ubuntu.com
Anyway, what we should be concerned about is getting our apps into Debian. It would both make our apps available in Debian+Ubuntu+derivatives (over 80% of desktop market) and improve quality and robustness of the packaging we use in PPAs. Debian is important for several reasons. First of all, it holds 20% of market share, in that it's second only to Ubuntu with 60%. BTW, no other distro has surpassed even the 4% bar. Second, by working with Debian we get our apps into Ubuntu for free, and I prefer that way of getting our apps there over working with MOTU because Ubuntu is kinda short on archive maintainers; they're actually trying to move all packages present only in Ubuntu archive to Debian repos and quit maintaining them separately. The problem about Debian is that it still uses processes back from mid-1990s. ITP (intent to package) is a strictly formatted email sent to a special address... the guy who wrote the program without which it's virtually impossible to generate the email evidently has never heard about UX design... still, at the 8th attempt I got through it and was told to expect a confirmation email in an hour, but the confirmation never arrived. So we will need somebody familiar with all that. Either way, let's think of getting our apps into distros AFTER we release Luna. I suggest organizing a sprint dedicated to that, me and Pim Vullers have kicked off writing relevant docs already. We'll have to rewrite them though, e.g. replace dependency lists with instructons on extracting them from CMake because this thing is not going to be maintainable otherwise. -- Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp