Task:Packaging policy proposed changes

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The current Maemo Packaging Policy (version 0.23) needs to be changed in light of the revised list of valid package categories.

Contents

Package sections (Policy section 2.2)

Current section list seems to be confusing to both community developers and Nokia teams. All sections that were added by developers have been reviewed and this proposal is based on that result.

Current sections

  • accessories
  • communication
  • games
  • multimedia
  • office
  • other
  • programming
  • support
  • themes

Proposed sections

Key Example English i18n Example apps
user/desktop Desktop Home, statusbar and taskbar applets
user/development Programming py2deb
user/education Educational Flashcard apps
user/games Games Doom, Duke Nukem 3D
user/graphics Graphics Photo apps, GIMP, Inkscape, fonts
user/multimedia Multimedia or Sound & Video Canola, mplayer, Kagu, UKMP, MediaBox
user/navigation (Location &) Navigation maemo-mapper, Navit
user/network Internet & Networking Web browsers, Samba clients, OpenAFS, Transmission
user/office Office GPE, Claws, AbiWord
user/science Science gnuplot, Octave
user/system System rotation-support, enhanced kernels, themes
user/utilities Utilities or Accessories Calculators, terminals, text editors

Proposed revision

Section 2.2 currently reads:

The section of packages in the user segment SHOULD be one of the following: accessories, communication, games, multimedia, office, other, programming, support, themes, tools.3 The sections in this list will appear correctly localized in the Application Manager.

Proposed revision:

The section of packages in the user segment SHOULD be one of the following: desktop, development, education, games, graphics, multimedia, navigation, network, office, science, system, utilities.3 The sections in this list will appear correctly localized in the Application Manager. If the package's section starts with "user/", but is not any of the above, the Application Manager will force them into an "Other" section.


Section B.3 Parallel option currently reads:

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Proposal:

Possibly an quick explanation of the parallel option and a link to http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-debianrules-options or your own explanation.

Oh, and a note explaining -j *must* have a number or you'll kill the autobuilder with massive builds.

Discussion

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