[maemo-developers] [RFC] Maemo package guidelines: mandatory categories

[From: Marius Vollmer]

"ext Graham Cobb" <g+770 at cobb.uk.net> writes:

> On Thursday 17 April 2008 13:36:15 Marius Vollmer wrote:
>> "ext Andrew Flegg" <andrew at bleb.org> writes:
>> > Having said that, perhaps the MOTU-style proposal of gatekeepers doing
>> > QA checks could help here. Deviation is permitted, if it gets through
>> > a gatekeeper:
>>
>> Yes, I agree.  I was proposing this, in a more fine fashion: in
>> addition to being able to say who goes in and who doesn't, the
>> gatekeeper could also say: You go in but I am going to change your
>> category to something sensible whether you want to or not.  (I.e., the
>> category of a package can be overwritten by the repository.)
>
> NO. NO. NO!  No one gets to change my package!

Don't worry, nobody is going to do that. :-) I was thinking about the
normal Debian 'overrides' machinery.  Only the repository indices would
be affected; essentially, instead of taking the "Section" field for your
package from your package when creating the Packages file for the
repository, it is taken from a overrides file.  This is OK, since it
doesn't change the effect your package has when being installed.