[maemo-developers] Maemo 5 PR1.2 and Extras

[From: Thomas Tanner]

I don't know whether this has been discussed before:

what is wrong with forcing users that have the necessary Internet access
to download applications from Extras, to also upgrade to
the lastest firmware, which is supposed to fix bugs anyway.
Why would anybody not upgrade the firmware?
Why is backwards compatibility necessary for Fremantle minor releases?

Enforcing the requirement could make our life so much easier.
We could have a package "maemo-extras" which enables the extras
repository and which always depends on the latest firmware version.
Or we could add the current firmware version to the dependencies of
packages build on autobuilder.
Users who don't want to upgrade would have to stick with the on-device
applications.

cheers

On 24.02.10 12:21, Niels Breet wrote:
> Maemo 5 PR1.2 seems to be a release with some large changes which are not
> backwards compatible with previous releases....
> - 'older' devices will continue to fetch from distribution: fremantle
> This will effectively mean that the 'old' Extras will not get any updates.
...
> Nokia will encourage people to upgrade to the latest release as much as
> possible and we expect people to switch to PR1.2 at a high rate.


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