[maemo-developers] Non-user/ packages and updating

[From: Andrew Flegg]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 19:57, Eino-Ville Talvala <talvala at stanford.edu> wrote:
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> Since FCam is a publicly-available API that we're trying to promote, we're
> expecting third parties to write applications that depend on fcam-drivers.
>  That means not all apps will be ours, and we can't do the update for them,
> leaving some users with buggy versions.  Already, the HDR and low-light
> programs are apps by our collaborators at Nokia Research, and I don't have
> any ability to update them.

You only need one app to pull up the version with a >= dependency and
the fcam-drivers for every app will get updated.

If the user-facing application suffers from a bug, them putting out a
re-release with an increased dependency once upstream (i.e. you) fixes
it shouldn't be too much of a problem. If their app isn't affected by
the bug (and no app really is), there's no impact on the user ;-)

A little simplistic, but hopefully it helps.

Cheers,

Andrew

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