On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 16:40 +0100, Ian wrote: > Hi > > This is ideal, at least in theory. The problem is that many package > > maintainers don't know the programming language of the software they > > are packaging. If you are packaging something written in erlang you > > will not be able to quickly fix bugs in that package if you don't know > > erlang. This problem is a big one in debian, which is why they pass > > bugs upstream. How many package maintainers know the code of the > > package they maintain in maemo? > > This separation of code and packaging (.diff.gz and .orig.tar.gz.) is > IMO extremely important for Maemo and should be actively encouraged by > both Nokia and the community processes. > Downstream projects will thank us for it, i imagine
Yes, I wish that Nokia projects such as hildon stuck to that instead of packaging directly from svn. -- murr...@murrayc.com www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
