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

[From: Graham Cobb]

On Friday 17 October 2008 11:37:16 Quim Gil wrote:
> Eero Tamminen wrote:
> > Marius/Quim, any opinion on whether the Nokia provided tools packages
> > should go to extras instead of the SDK/tools repository?
>
> There is this principle of publishing supported software in *.nokia.com
> and have 0 responsibilities on whatever goes to extras.

In that case, all the SDK and tools packages should go in the Nokia main 
repository for the release (or, equivalently, the SDK and tools repositories 
should be pre-configured and enabled on the device).  None of these packages 
will be in user/ sections, so they will not appear in the App Mgr.  But any 
of them might be a necessary dependency of a package in Extras, which should 
be able to be installed by the user by simply enabling Extras.

If there is really anything which would break the tablet if it was installed 
on it (and I can't see why there would be) then it can just conflict with the 
tablet software package.

Graham