[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Re: Flasher debs

[From: Timo Steuerwald]

Ferenc Szekely wrote:

>Hello,
>
>ext Aleksandr Koltsoff wrote:
>  
>
>>On Thursday 27 October 2005 15:59, Aleksandr Koltsoff wrote:
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>>>I agree with Timo on this one. Just came up with another package that could
>>>be placed in such repo. The documentation html-stuff. Would be nice to be
>>>able to download the docs in proper /usr/share/doc-path when going on a
>>>trip with a laptop (or even with GPRS). Would make updating docs and
>>>flasher easier as well (would be part of regular apt-get update -process).
>>>      
>>>
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>We can not provide the flasher anywhere else then behind the "License
>Acceptance" page. We can create a deb package however and put it there,
>but only there.
>
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>
I don't understand where's the difference between the current way and 
the common debian way: Displaying the license acceptance after 
downloading and *before* installing the package as already described 
from Valtteri.

>The idea is good, but we it would mean extra maintenance work whenever
>we update the repository. I know it did not happen too often (I mean
>updating packages) in the past 5 months, but hope this will change :)
>
>In case somebody creates such a package for 1.1rc5 then we could
>check|test and then upload it to the repository.
>  
>
Ok, currently every developer does this "extra maintenance work" on its 
own... :-(

Cheers,

Timo

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