[maemo-developers] QA from extras-devel to extras-testing

[From: Ian]

Hi
> This is ideal, at least in theory. The problem is that many package
> maintainers don't know the programming language of the software they
> are packaging. If you are packaging something written in erlang you
> will not be able to quickly fix bugs in that package if you don't know
> erlang. This problem is a big one in debian, which is why they pass
> bugs upstream. How many package maintainers know the code of the
> package they maintain in maemo?

This separation of code and packaging (.diff.gz and .orig.tar.gz.) is
IMO extremely important for Maemo and should be actively encouraged by
both Nokia and the community processes.
Downstream projects will thank us for it, i imagine

Regards
Ian



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