[maemo-developers] extras: promotion interface

[From: Mikhail Sobolev]

On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 03:02:10PM +0200, (int) Eero Tamminen wrote:
> 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?
Because in this particular case I believe more flexible is better than
less flexible :)

> > 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?
This becomes way too complicated. :-/  What if a developer does not
really care about x86?

--
Misha
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