[maemo-developers] Packaging changes to base system.

[From: Matan Ziv-Av]

Hello,

1. The iptables package that is installed is missing a few .so files 
(MASQUERADE, DNAT, etc.). With a few changes to the files in debian/ 
directory of the source package, it now also generates a new package 
iptables-ext, which includes those missing files. The question is how to 
distribute this: Is it acceptable to upload this to extras-devel (using 
the autobuilder) even though this creates the same package as in the 
base system? And should I increase the release number (which will cause 
problems with osso-software-version) or use the same?

2. In order to language name in input setting dialog, rather than empty 
parentheses, the language needs to appear in the binary files in the 
directory /usr/share/i18n-locale-resolver/, provided by the package 
(with no source) locale-resolver-data. I wrote a small program to 
generate those files from a source file. The package I created now 
includes those files with different names and the postinst script to 
rename them, since otherwise it will conflict with the original package 
(again, required by osso-software-version). Is there a better way to 
achieve this?

TIA for any answers,

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Matan Ziv-Av.                         matan at svgalib.org