[maemo-developers] MeeGo

[From: Thomas Tanner]

On 15.02.10 16:47, Jeremiah Foster wrote:
>> The problem is more complex than converting binary .debs to .rpms
>> using a hack.
> alien is not a hack.

the hack referes to a process ignoring the issues listed below. No
automated process can take into account all the distribution and program
specific quirks.

>> 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.
> 
>> Who benefits more from the merger, Moblin or Maemo?
> Both benefit if we get the kind of scale that is imagined.

I'm not critising the merger itself, but how and what is merged
and whether that are top-down decisions or whether the community is
involved.

AFAIK there a hardly any Moblin specific third-party apps.
It could be much less effort to integrate the Moblin components
in a Debian based system than converting all Maemo apps to Moblin/RPM.

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