[maemo-developers] extras: promotion interface

[From: Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

ext Mikhail Sobolev wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 09:47:07AM -0500, Levi Bard wrote:
>> Comments:
>> * Is it necessary to separate each package into source/armel/i386/etc?
>>  Why not just display the package name (e.g. xmaeme), perhaps with a
>> link to click to view the contained files, and/or an asterisk if
>> there's no source?  Is there any situation in which, say, the source
>> component would be promoted, but the armel component wouldn't?
 >
> No, it's not.  And my original implementation (non-released) was doing
> exactly that.  However when I looked at it, I thought that there could
> be people who would rather have such a flexibility.

Why?


> I do agree with you with respect to sources, however as for different
> architectures, the situation is a bit different: one architecture could
> be better supported than the other, so...

I think it's better that they all are in sync.  That creates less
confusion when people test first their package against some dependency
in one architecture and then against another architecture.  If the other
architecture has another version of the dependency, are the problems
because of the architecture or dependency version change?


	- Eero