[maemo-developers] extras: promotion interface

[From: Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

ext Mikhail Sobolev wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 03:02:10PM +0200, (int) Eero Tamminen wrote:
>>> 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?

What kind of a problems you were thinking about?

If some specific package has issues on x86 due to its development
happening on ARM only, I don't see that as a problem except in a sense
that its developers not caring that much about quality in general and
wasting their time debugging things on ARM that could be more easily
debugged on x86 with something like Valgrind.

There are of course packages that work only on ARM (kernel, DSP stuff
etc), but those don't have any versions available on x86.  If software
has packages for multiple architectures (for the same distro, be it
Chinook or something else), they should have the same version.


	- Eero