[maemo-developers] MeeGo

[From: Jeremiah Foster]

On Feb 15, 2010, at 4:40 PM, Thomas Tanner wrote:

> The problem is more complex than converting binary .debs to .rpms using
> a hack.

alien is not a hack. It is packaged and maintained by Joey Hess who wrote debhelper. Few people know more about debian's build system than Joey.

> The dependencies, the build script and Debian (ucf, debconf) or Maemo
> (maemo-optify) specific aspects of the sources would need to be adapted
> as well. Backporting to Maemo5 would also be more difficult.

Backporting is always going to be difficult. 

> Who benefits more from the merger, Moblin or Maemo?

Both benefit if we get the kind of scale that is imagined. We create a single platform to power many devices across the device spectrum. This is a battle for the operating system that works everywhere BUT the desktop, they already concede that Windows owns that and no one wants to fight there. 

Jeremiah