[maemo-developers] Ask for removal of some packages from Extras Fremantle repository

[From: Niels Breet]

On Mon, March 22, 2010 11:56, Robin Burchell wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Jeremiah Foster
> <jeremiah at jeremiahfoster.com> wrote:
>
>> Why are you guys interested in removing so many packages?
>>
>
> Did you miss the thread asking for bugs wrt packaging to be fixed,
> which was met with crickets?

Where was this?


>Same with the bugs themselves, it seems. [1]
> [2]
>
>
> While I wish there was another way to fix this, I don't think Khertan
> has mismanaged this in any way - he reported the bugs, he followed up on
> it, and has been met with silence on issues that annoy and frustrate the
> extras packaging process.
>
> [1]: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9494
> [2]: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9608

To be fair these bugs are two weeks[1] and 4 days[2] old. You can't expect
instant fixes to these things. Work is being done, sometimes takes a while
because of the amount of work there is to do.

Another fact is that this is a non-free app, we don't have many of those.
This means that the codepaths in the interface and import scripts are
being tested less than for free apps.

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Niels Breet
maemo.org webmaster