On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 04:48:35PM +0000, Steve Greenland wrote: > According to Krischan Keitsch <krischan.keitsch at alumni.tu-berlin.de>: > > to a) "Were are all the apps?" > > One thing that we are missing is a 'distribution' (the debian or ubuntu way) > > with primary repositories and additional repos. etc. > > Actually, I think we *have* that repo: repository.maemo.org. The problem > is that there is no obvious, straightforward way for Jill Random to get > her packages into the repo. Is this documented anywhere? A quick browse > of maemo.org didn't find anything. http://maemo.org/community/application-catalog/extras_repository.html I still haven't found the time to do that and instead keep the few packages I need in my ad-hoc repository :( > But as I noted, there seems to be some plans to improve this situation. > > And, admittedly, it's not as easy as just letting anonymous people > upload. Any package can trash the entire system, via the install hooks. > Debian deals with this by making it so painful to become an official > developer that the asshats won't make the effort. I think Ubuntu's MOTU model is worth looking at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU > OTOH, the current situation encourages the addition of random repos to > the source list, so basically is no different than letting random people > upload. My other pet peeve is that this encourages binary-only debs which you can't then fix/port to a different SDK version. I sincerely hope Maemo Extras rejects sourceless packages. Marius Gedminas -- Did you know that 7/5 people don't know how to use fractions? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20071018/5bcd10fb/attachment.pgp
