[maemo-developers] MeeGo

[From: Jamie Bennett]

On 15 Feb 2010, at 16:21, Thomas Tanner wrote:

> 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.

Its already been done with the Ubuntu Moblin Remix. (Disclaimer, I work for Canonical who did the Moblin Remix).

> Thomas Tanner ------

Regards,
Jamie.
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