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

[From: Allen Brown]

Yes!  Yes!  A thousand times, yes!
-- 
Allen Brown
http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown

> Hi all,
>
> Here is my first suggestion to clean up the complete mess we have at the
> moment when it comes to package categories in the maemo extras repository.
> There is no official list of categories, which has brought us to state
> we are in now.
>
> We have these nice categories for example: 'Boingo', 'Canola'. Those
> should
> never be a category by themselves. We also have a lot of duplicates like
> 'cli' ,'Commandline' and 'Web','www' and 'Utilities','utils'.
>
> This really has to stop as this is confusing for end users. We, the maemo
> community, need to find a solution and fix this.
>
> If we look at Debian, we can see that they have the following list of
> categories[1]:
>
> admin, base, comm, contrib, devel, doc, editors, electronics, embedded,
> games, gnome, graphics, hamradio, interpreters, kde, libs, libdevel,
> mail, math, misc, net, news, non-free, oldlibs, otherosfs, perl, python,
> science, shells, sound, tex, text, utils, web, x11
>
> My suggestion would be to base our list off the Debian list and remove
> the categories that are not suitable for Maemo. We might also want to add
> some categories if we find some missing.
>
> admin, comm, devel, doc, editors, games, graphics, interpreters, mail,
> net, news, utils
>
> and add:
>
> desktop, database, education, internet, multimedia, office, scientific,
> security, system, travel
>
> Please feel free to suggest other categories. Try to keep them as broad as
> possible. I would really like to get a list of categories where every
> application can be in at least one category. It would be nice not to need
> the 'misc' or 'other' category.
>
> Perhaps it would also be a good idea to have the Application Manager
> display the pretty name for each category. e.g. comm -> Communication.
> That might be step 2 though.
>
> I also would like your feedback on this idea:
> "For diablo we only accept packages in the extras/extras-devel
> repositories
> when they have a valid category."
>
> I'm really not sure if we can do this in time for diablo, but at least we
> can try to get the community to agree on this. I don't think we can do
> anything for existing repositories, but at least we could try for the new
> ones.
>
> Please respond with your ideas, but keep it to the category subject only.
>
>
> - Niels
>
> [1]Debian Sections:
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-subsections
>
>
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