[maemo-developers] Too many categories in Application Manager

[From: Alberto Garcia]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 08:46:42PM +0200, Andrea Grandi wrote:

> > I think that the problem is that categories are defined by
> > application developers (Section: field in the debian/control
> > file).
> 
> yes, you're right. With my mail I did mean: can we decide some
> general rules that every developer/packager have to follow before
> choosing the category?

We have a list of categories, actually:

http://maemo.org/maemo_release_documentation/maemo4.1.x/node14.html#SECTION001426000000000000000

We could enforce developers to use one of those for their packages to
appear in maemo extras ...

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Alberto García González
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