[maemo-developers] extras: promotion interface

[From: Benoit HERVIER]

Mikhail Sobolev a écrit :
> 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 :)
> 

And mainly because some people doing onboard dev directly on tablet, 
can't upload as dput isn't available, and have too many depandancies to 
be compiled for the tablet. For example, i use PyPackager to make my 
Package, but i can't upload it to extra.

>>> 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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