Hi! On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:32:22AM +0300, Eero Tamminen wrote: > A draft version of the "maemo packaging policy" is available > for commenting: > https://maemo.org/forrest-images/pdf/maemo-policy.pdf > > If you're packaging software for maemo, please take a look at it.
* Testing on a device with no extra packages is a hard to do, unless
you have two devices, or you're not actually using the one you have.
I wish we had a complete hardware emulator so that you could test
package installation on a pristine rootfs in a virtual machine.
* Interactive prompts from maintainer scripts (such as asking where
do you want to stick this new thing in your menus) are annoying for
the user. I'd be inclined to add a sentence or two saying that these
SHOULD be avoided where possible.
* Splitting translations has a question about Debian/Ubuntu. I'm not a
developer of either, but as far as I know Debian ships translation
files for all languages in the same .deb that contains the software,
while Ubuntu collects all translations from a big group of related
packages into a language-pack-$group-$languagecode, so you end up
with language-pack-lt, language-pack-gnome-lt, language-pack-kde-lt
and so on. The Ubuntu solution is only possible because they release
the whole stack at once.
> As stated in the policy document, the comments and questions on this
> policy should be mailed to the maemo-developers mailing list with
> word "policy" in the subject.
This thread qualifies. ;-)
Marius Gedminas
--
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when
you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
-- Poul Anderson
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