[maemo-developers] Question about how to port to N800

[From: Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

ext Tuomas Kulve wrote:
>>> You need to have proper section in debian/control file in your package,
>>> the standard debian packages are "imcompatible". Use "user/something" to
>>> be "compatible".
> 
>> I still don't understand. Can you tell me how to do it more specifically?
>> The following is the data of control file in my package:
> 
>> Section: doc
> 
> This tells that the package is doc related on debian. On maemo you need
> to say:
> 
> Section: user/doc
> 
> The predefined categories is listed somewhere on the maemo wiki. It's
> probably "user/Documents" and not "user/doc". But anything like
> "user/foobar" should work.

"user" sections is only needed if one wants the packages (when they are
put into a repository configured for application manager) to be visible
in the application manager package list.  IMHO this is relevant only for
packages  that  have something that user can invoke directly from the
UI.

Developers normally install the package from command with
"dpkg -i <*.deb packages>", but application manager can install
deb files directly from the file system too (and this doesn't need
"user" section either I think).


	- Eero