[maemo-developers] extras: promotion interface

[From: Ed Bartosh]

On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 22:37 +0100, ext Benoit HERVIER wrote:
> Ed Bartosh a écrit :
> > Hi,
> > On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 21:38 +0100, ext Benoit HERVIER wrote:
> > 
> >> 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. 
> > 
> > dput isn't mandatory for aploading packages to extras*. 
> > All you need is debsign and scp.
> 
> Yes ... but debsign isn't available on device ...
> 
debsign is a short shell script. I don't think it's a big task 
to make it run on the device.

> > Look at my old post for the details:
> > http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/2006-September/002080.html
> > 
> >> For example, i use PyPackager to make my 
> >> Package, but i can't upload it to extra.
> >>
> > You can. You just didn't know about that :) 
> > 
> And still need a .dsc ... as i only have a package as dpkg-buildpackage 
> isn't available too. :)
May be you don't need .dsc if you don't have source packages. 
You need only .changes and I believe that if you're able to
generate .deb packages somehow you definitely can generate .changes :)

-- 
Ed Bartosh <eduard.bartosh at nokia.com>
Nokia-M/Helsinki