[maemo-developers] How to get a general utility package cross-listed from tools to extras?

[From: Quim Gil]

ext Eero Tamminen wrote:
> I've never really understood the argument of having the SDK repository
> separate, this separation seems artificial.  If SDK repo has packages
> that break things on the device, they should be fixed[1].

Any steps should be done in the direction of having the known 4 areas of
most Linux distributions:

official / free
official / non-free
unofficial / free
unofficial / non-free

SDK and other officially supported developer tools need to be together
under a *.nokia.com domain.

extras and other software not officially supported need to be together
under a *.maemo.org domain.

If the problem is that developers are not aware of official tools other
than the SDK, the solution is not to add them to extras. If the problem
is that those packages are needed as dependencies, then perhaps extras
could be configured in a way to be aware of the neighbor repository?

What is clear is that there is no sense of maintaining same packages twice.

-- 
Quim Gil
marketing manager, open source
Maemo Software @ Nokia