[maemo-developers] Repositories mess: conclusions and actions

[From: Steve Greenland]

According to Tim Teulings <rael at edge.ping.de>:
> 
> The first one - the one that I think you mean (and that I think is 
> important and must be agreed on to initiate the process) - is the guide 
> that defines the process. Of course an important part of the process is 
> for example packaging. You a right in that we can copy most of such 
> guides from debian. However it is likely that we have to modify this. 
> For example we may need some additional headers for the in parallel 
> discussed bug tracking client application. So here we agree :-)

You know that Debian already has a mechanism to support this? Each
package can have an "Origin: " field, and reportbug will lookup the
appropriate BTS in /etc/dpkg/origins/*.

Unfortunately, my google-fu is inadequate to find the documentation for
this...or maybe it doesn't exist.


Steve
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