[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] extras repository

[From: Carlos Guerreiro]

ext Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 17:42 +0200, Carlos Guerreiro wrote: 
>   
>>> libsigc++, glibmm, and gtkmm are already in extras. The packages just
>>> need to be rebuilt for sardine. They need to be updated too to the
>>> latest source versions, but we can take care of this, if you like.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> The preferred way for the sardine robot is to build from source (tagged 
>> releases in SVN).
>> So, one or more projects in garage with the right source versions for 
>> these components would be ideal, pretty much like what already exists 
>> for hildon-fmmm and hildon-widgetsmm.
>>     
>
> I'd rather not fork gtkmm's source just so it can be packaged, but I
> will if you really need it.
>   
Well, I don't really see it as forking since no independent development 
is expected or desired,
but that's a matter of definition I suppose.

> Alternatively, you should find what you need here:
> http://www.openismus.com/temp/sardine_packages/
>
>   
An alternative is to point to robot to the debian source packages. The 
robot has half-baked functionality
for this, that I could finalize.

I will look into this to see how much work would be involved and then 
get back to this.