[maemo-developers] policy updates (was: Problems with the fremantle autobuilder...)

[From: Jeremiah Foster]

On May 27, 2009, at 9:51, Eero Tamminen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> ext Jeremiah Foster wrote:
>> If they are "illegal" this needs to be clearly communicated in the   
>> Packaging Policy document so that packagers know what to name  
>> their  packages. Currently the version naming is rather unclear and  
>> version  strings like the one mentioned above is confusing at best.  
>> Can we  encourage Nokia to work with Maemo to clarify and complete  
>> the Maemo  Packaging Policy.
>
> If there are updates you would want to get to the Maemo policy,
> please put them to the updates wiki page:
>  http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Packaging_policy_proposed_changes
>
> Before or after discussion on this list.

Thank you for pointing out that resource Eero!
>
> There was earlier (when policy was originally released) also some
> discussion about minor updates people would want to the policy.
> If somebody could go through the mailing list (all mails on policy
> have "policy" in their subject) and add the suggestions to the
> proposed changes page, this could speed up getting the policy
> updated for Fremantle(/Mer/...).

Another good suggestion. :)
>
> Btw. We hope to get the next policy update out as a Debian package
> which source package will contain the LyX sources for the policy
> PDF file.

Brilliant - I think this would be useful, people tend to shy away from  
pdfs.

>
> 	- Eero
>
> Ps. I added the "policy" keyword to the subject line of this mail  
> too. :-)
>