Hi, ext Marius Gedminas wrote: > 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.
Maybe this would be better: As a result, package installation and uninstallation MUST be tested (also) on the device, before the package is uploaded to the repositories. Test device SHOULD NOT have extra software installed. > I wish we had a complete hardware emulator so that you could test > package installation on a pristine rootfs in a virtual machine. Qemu got recently some preliminary N8x0 support: http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/trunk/Changelog?revision=4490&root=qemu&view=markup I haven't tried it myself. In theory the better package dependency / Busybox testing should be possible on Desktop & x86 too, but there's no ready made maemo x86 image that one could boot in x86 system Qemu. > * 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. Along with selecting sensible defaults so that if/when the GUI tools will support non-interactive mode like the Debian tools do, the package wouldn't do anything stupid. Debconf support is not currently planned though. > * 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, Which has the drawback that translations are tied to the software updates... > 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. Which at least earlier had the drawback of forcing Thunderbird, Firefox and OpenOffice installation on Kubuntu... > 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. ;-) Sure. :-) Thanks for the feedback! - Eero _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
