[maemo-developers] Uploading software to Maemo repos

[From: Jeremiah Foster]

On Jan 1, 2010, at 16:29, Nathan Anderson wrote:

> Jeremiah,
> 
> 	1. Why will they not go through?  What is so special that they
> aren't allowed?

Because there are other versions which are needed to build other packages.
> 
> 	2. Is their a list of packages that are not allowed, and why isn't
> it linked to on the main upload page.

Have you read the wiki? Or any other development documentation?

Jeremiah

> 
> Nathan.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org] On Behalf Of Jeremiah Foster
> Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 9:24 AM
> To: Bryan Jacobs
> Cc: maemo-developers mailing-list
> Subject: Re: Uploading software to Maemo repos
> 
> 
> On Jan 1, 2010, at 16:22, Bryan Jacobs wrote:
> 
>> Jeremiah,
>> 
>> I needed ss-dev, debconf-utils, and a few other packages which *were* 
>> built from the Nokia official sources but which *were not* present in 
>> any repository I could find.  The packages I built which are also in 
>> the official Nokia repository (e2fsprogs and debconf) are unmodified 
>> and constructed via apt-get source; dpkg-buildpackage.
> 
> They will not go through - there is a check on the builder that prevents
> that sort of thing from happening, though the check sometimes fails. Do you
> read your build logs?
> 
> Jeremiah
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