[maemo-developers] Transitioning to the new package categories

[From: Jeremiah Foster]

On Apr 15, 2009, at 2:08, Ryan Abel wrote:

> I've been waiting for Nokia to ship the new package categories in a
> Diablo update to begin spamming maintainers to start transitioning to
> the new list, but as it seems clear that this list will never ship for
> Diablo, there's no point in waiting any longer.[1][2]
>
> I'd like to propose that we start actively transitioning to the new
> categories in the beginning of May (maintainers are encouraged to
> update before then, especially as it has the potential to spare you
> from a bit of spam ;)). Since a lot of spam will be going out anyway,
> we might want to consider using it to address some other packaging
> issues at the same time. Primarily the use of Maemo-specific fields,
> but also, potentially, a general auditing of all packages in Extras
> (the metrics for which will have to be put together by somebody more
> experienced with packaging than I).

"a general audit" makes maemian (or rather the adapted lintian) the  
ideal candidate since that is what it is designed for. I hope I can  
get maemian to run over the repo soon. Then set up that audit in an  
automated fashion.


>
> So, does the transition and the timeframe sound good to everybody?
> Does the auditing sound like a useful endeavor? If so, what sort of
> metrics should be used?

I like things like; does it build? Is it installable? Is it de- 
installable?

Then one can move to more fine grained approaches.

Jeremiah