[maemo-developers] Diablo extras repository proposal

[From: David Greaves]

Quim Gil wrote:
> 
> ext Graham Cobb wrote:
>> In my case, a big problem is dependencies which were previously uploaded into 
>> Extras without sources.  It would really help if you were to consider taking 
>> those packages which do not have sources and just copying the chinook package 
>> into diablo.  Or, at least, considering it as an exception process for 
>> specific packages!
> 
> I think end users can wait and/or gettheir apps from Chinook while we
> sort this out and do it right from the beginning.
> 
> Maybe this has been proposed before but...
> 
> - What are the dependency packages you need to put in place or fix?
> Don't answer here, go to the wiki and start the list. Rest of developers
> in the same situation than Graham, add your problematic packages to the
> list.
That was what I was trying to do here:
  https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3288

This appears to be a chinook app that depends on a 4.0 core package
(nfs/portmap) that's no longer included in 4.1.
  http://repository.maemo.org/stable/diablo/4.1_vs_4.0.1_content_changes.html

(Nb I could easily be misreading/misunderstanding the situation)

David