[maemo-developers] Search in extras / extras-devel before uploading a new package

[From: David King]

On 2009-07-20 17:35, Nicolas <nicolasfr at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'd like to upload a package to extras-devel (nano editor - taken directly
>from Ubuntu arm launchpad page) using the assistant, but I have a few
>questions:
>
>- Is such application welcome in extras-devel / extra ?

I don't see why not. :)

>- Is there a search engine somewhere to check if an app already exists in
>extras / extras-devel ?

http://maemo.org/packages/ is what you are looking for. It's new for Beta
2, see
http://communitizer.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-maemoorg-packages.html
for more details.

>- Should a garage page be created ?

Only if you have Maemo-specific changes, and don't plan on merging them
into nano upstream, I would say.

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