[maemo-developers] Proposal: Karma-Whores protection mailing list

[From: Marius Vollmer]

ext Anderson Lizardo <anderson.lizardo at openbossa.org> writes:

> Is maemo-optify-deb run on autobuilder inside the scratchbox target
> and after all dependencies have been installed?

Yes.  It is run after the package archives have been built and after
pymaemo-optify has done its thing.  So maybe it is best just to look for
the effect that pymaemo-optify has.  Maybe pymaemo-optify could even
just "echo none >debian/optify"...  I'll have to have a closer look at
how pymaemo-optify actually works...

(We should also think about folding pymaemo-optify into maemo-optify
completely, but that can be done later as well.)

> If so, checking whether "pymaemo-optify" is installed on the
> scratchbox target would be one heuristic to detect indirect
> dependencies,

Yeah, I was thinking of that, too...  Maybe it is indeed good enough.

> This together with the direct dependency check (i.e. looking by
> pymaemo-optify or python or python2.5 on Depends) would make a good
> heuristic (in my opinion).

Well, the direct dependency check wouldn't do anything useful anymore,
or would it?  (I.e., has-dependency || pymaemo-optify-is-installed ==
pymaemo-optify-is-installed.)