On Thursday 07 December 2006 12:14, Marius Vollmer wrote: [...] > > Compiling a source package separately for each distribution will thus > be problematic since we end up with same-named packages that can > differ widely.
definitely yes > > But since it is not easy right now for the "average user" to follow > distribution changes, and our distro landscape is a bit messed up > anyway, people will want to provide their software for many > distributions, not just for 'unstable'. for people who want bleding edge apps in stable distribuitions we could provide something like backports.org > > I think it would be best for package maintainers to branch explicitly > for this. E.g., if a maintainer normally releases his/her packages > for scirocco, but wants to put a new version into mistral, he/she > should branch the last version of the package that is in mistral. The > version number in scirocco should be higher than the one in mistral. > > Maybe we should come up with a standard convention for how to do this, > and maybe we can support it semi-automatically in the queue manager. i think the best way to have high quality packages and apps and not to go in a mess of depends is to build and upload to unstable (devel branch) and as apps are being tested automatically go into testing and later a stable branch. _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
