[maemo-developers] Debian armel

[From: Matthew Exon]

Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> is anybody using the stock Debian packages
> 
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2008/03/msg00033.html
> 
> on an N800 or N810? I understand that GUI apps are not that useful, but the 
> command line applications, like cvs, would be a huge benefit for me already.

They all end up depending on Lenny's libc6 and other extreme core
packages, which you really don't want to be replacing.  If you take care
to make sure the dependencies are installed, even if they're the wrong
versions, you can force it with --force-depends, but this frequently
leads to things breaking pretty badly.

For that reason, using a Lenny package directly is a bit of a last
resort.  Far better to make a Maemo backport, by grabbing the Debian
source package and compiling it in scratchbox.