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

[From: Marius Vollmer]

ext Murray Cumming <murrayc at murrayc.com> writes:

>> 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.

I don't see this as either/or, actually.  You can build non-native
packages from svn.  So what you are asking for is to build non-native
packages, which is a fair request.

We have always known in the back of our minds that we should separate
packaging from upstream development, but it was always too much trouble
without sufficient gain if you are always making 'upstream' and package
releases at the same time anyway.