[maemo-developers] Repositories mess: conclusions and actions

[From: Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

ext Steve Greenland wrote:
> 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.

I found this:
http://www.hadrons.org/~guillem/debian/docs/origin.proposal


	- Eero