[maemo-developers] Changes from diablo to fremantle [Was: debmaster priorities [YOUR INPUT HERE]]

[From: Jeremiah Foster]

On May 15, 2009, at 19:59, Mikko Vartiainen wrote:

>> The backend stuff is pretty important. For example, when building
>> packages for fremantle, certain things have changed. This means that
>> packages that are needed as dependencies are not getting built  
>> because
>> they are not conforming to the new rules.
>
> What are these certain things or rules? I don't recall or haven't  
> even noticed that there is something new for depencies (which are  
> mostly libraries).

Specifically when a package uses a post-install script, during  
installation it gets reported that the app is "Unable to install". The  
error message is: "maemo-select-menu-location: not found".

Upstream bug report in debian: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=488442

Jeremiah