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

[From: Murray Cumming]

On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 16:40 +0100, Ian wrote:
> 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

Yes, I wish that Nokia projects such as hildon stuck to that instead of
packaging directly from svn.

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