Hi Felipe! On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Felipe Crochik <fel...@crochik.com> wrote: > I am trying to understand why we can’t just upload the qt 4.6 deb files used > by scratchbox to “extras-development” so anybody can easily have access to > applications developed using qt4.6
These are packages used by scratchbox. http://repository.maemo.org/pool/fremantle/free/q/qt4-x11/ > I understand that maybe some of the new > “standard” qt4.6 may not work until PR1.2 is out but I haven’t seen any > actual reports of anything that doesn’t work or works worst than the current > qt4-maemo5 version. > > > > Right now, as far as I can tell: > > - If you use the “old” standard 4.5.3 packages you can’t use the > new 4.6 features including the maemo5 lib. > > - If you use the new “standard” 4.6 packages the users won’t be > able to install on their devices because they won’t have the qt 4.6 until PR > 1.2 is out. > > - If you use qt4-maemo5 packages your application will be blocked > from moving to testing and we will have to submit new packages once PR1.2 is > out. > Well, testing is blocked, that's true. > > Am I correct on this summary? > > > > I saw a thread on talk.maemo.org about adding the repository used by the qt > sdk to get the new qt4.6 but it is very dangerous for most users. > > > > Can anybody help me find the answer to these questions? > > > > What happens if two people submit packages with the same name to the > “extras-development”? > What happens if a package with the same name exists on different > repositories? > any other reason (legal, technical, ..) why one of us can’t submit the deb > files to extras-devel? Would/could we upload them as non-free to make > easier? > > > > I assume that the package dependencies use the package name and version so > if we preserve the qt packages names once PR1.2 is out we would not have any > issues… in fact people would not even have to update them until a new > version is out. > > > > Felipe > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-developers mailing list > maemo-developers@maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers > > _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
