On Sunday 11 November 2007 15:11:51 Ed Bartosh wrote: > I'd like to discuss possible usage rules of extras-devel. > Here is my initial thoughts: > - For packages taken from Debian/Ubuntu/whatever package maintainer in > debian/control should be changed to uploader's name/e-mail
I agree > - Packages > should be built against latest versions of libraries from correspondent SDK > repository and extras-devel I don't think I agree. I am concerned about what will happen when V4.1 is issued. For Bora I currently build my packages against 3.0 so that all releases of Bora can be supported. I would expect that the same thing would happen with Chinook: packages should normally be built against the oldest libraries that will work and which do not conflict with the latest libraries. Otherwise users may experience unexpected (and partial) upgrades of base system components due to installing an application. Will Nokia test all possible combinations of partial OS upgrades when 4.1 comes out? This is a complex issue which also requires some further thought from the point of view of autobuilder requirements. > - extras-devel repository should contain all > dependencies for applications except of already installed on the device. It > means that users only need to add extras repository to be able to install > applications from it. No other repositories should be needed for that, even > maemo SDK. I agree for packages which are expected to be installed by end users. However, there are packages which are designed for installation in an SDK or build environment which may depend on the SDK. For example, normally library source packages generate two packages: libfoo and libfoo-dev. libfoo is designed to be installed on the device and should only depend on other extras packages and repositories shipped by Nokia. But libfoo-dev (which is used by developers of applications which use libfoo) may depend on packages in the SDK. Note that the build environment itself has to be able to install libfoo-dev in order to build any applications which depend on libfoo. > - It should be possible to upgrade devices and scratchbox targets from > extras-devel with apt-get dist-upgrade and with AM. Developers and testers > should upgrade their devices from extras-devel and report possible issues > to package uploader/project bug tracking system. That is a good goal but it requires that Nokia make the same commitment for their repositories: apt-get dist-upgrade should be safe. Also, until Nokia can support OS upgrades using apt-get I presume we would limit this to the same major version of the OS. Graham _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
