[maemo-developers] Application manager category view proposals

[From: Ryan Abel]

On Oct 27, 2008, at 10:47 AM, Marius Vollmer wrote:

> "ext Andrew Flegg" <andrew at bleb.org> writes:
>
>> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Marius Vollmer
>> <marius.vollmer at nokia.com> wrote:
>>>
>> [snip: packages with sections which aren't "liked"]
>>>
>>> You don't need to reject the packages: you can also rewrite rogue
>>> sections to "Other".
>>
>> There has, previously, been very strong (and probably justified)
>> revulsion at the idea of the autobuilder changing the uploaded
>> packages.
>
> You can put overrides into the archive: only the "Packages" files in  
> the
> repository would be affected, the packages themselves can remain
> untouched.


The reason I like doing this Application Manager-side is that it  
forces compliance even for stuff not going through the autobuilder or  
Extras. This prevents both Nokia and 3rd party repositories from being  
evil and corrupting the category view.

apt pulls in a lot of data from the repositories when it does an  
update anyway, so why not pull in the authoritative list (including  
section names, encoded icons, i18n and anything else that's relevant)  
from repository.maemo.org during these updates? Enforcement is done in  
the Application Manager but doesn't require the Application Manager to  
be updated to update the section list.

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Ryan Abel
Maemo Community Council chair