[maemo-developers] Diablo, do we need a separate repository?

[From: Niels Breet]

Hi all,

As you probably all know Diablo, the next revision of the IT OS, is coming
out sooner or later.

Diablo will be binary compatible with chinook, but there will be two
additions. There will be a new email framework and a newer version of
libssl (0.9.8) because of requirements for the WiMax tablet.

Most applications that work on chinook, should run unchanged on diablo. So
developers should not have to change anything in their code to run their
chinook application on diablo.

In the past we added an extras repository with the corresponding codename
for all new OS versions. This was needed, because versions weren't binary
compatible. We now have come to the point where the next version _is_
binary compatible. My question to the maemo community is this:

Do we need a separate extras repository for diablo or should we just add a
link to chinook?

By linking the two, developers don't have to upload their packages to both
repositories.

What do you think? Please give us your ideas, pros/cons.


- Niels