[maemo-developers] Optional build dependencies (e.g. for fremantle)

[From: Jeremiah Foster]

On Mar 18, 2009, at 3:43 PM, Till Harbaum / Lists wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Am Mittwoch 18 März 2009 schrieb Guillem Jover:
>
>> The clean and proper way to do this is to branch the packaging, in
>> Debian, packages always target the latest (sid), and often people do
>> backports for old releases (oldstable, stable, etc).

> No way. I won't branch for fremantle. Either it works with the same
> package or i won't support fremantle.

In debian packages get re-built for new targets often, for example  
nearly every package in stable will be rebuilt for squeeze in the next  
few weeks because of the update of debian policy. Packaging is hard  
work and I understand a lot of developers don't like doing it, but if  
you are interested in making life easier for the users of your  
software, I hope you will consider building a package for fremantle.

Jeremiah