On 7/26/07, Koen Kooi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's > > stupid to maintain a lame x86 port of maemo which nobody wants when all the > > components should be pushed to debian and ubuntu and get those bigger > > communities involved in their development. > > The big problem is that hildon depends on an old, forked version of gtk+ that > nobody in > their right mind wants on their x86 systems. The nokia people at guadec were > unable to > give me an ETA on when that will be fixed :(
As long as Nokia works in the current, essentially forked, mode, nothing will happen. Nokia needs to look at the way it interacts with upstream projects and change. Sure it can be painful, but hiding behind a smoke-screen of "product program priorities" is just not helping to solve the real issues. > > One day we will anyway be > > running debian/stable with a few custom components on the tablets. > > You mean switching back to OABI? Not really =) This needs the current armel port to mature and be accepted to debian. Nokia pushing it and putting resources into it would seriously help, I think. So far Nokia has done next to nothing right in the distro maintenance area. If SB1 somehow contributed to this state of affairs I'm really sorry about it, SB2 is trying hard to change things around by removing an obscure layer from between the host and the target distros, hopefully forcing a tighter coupling of them. At least it should be possible to build a package for both host and target distros like this: cd my_package dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot sb2 dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot I don't know any way to make it significantly easier than that. > > That was the aim with this whole debian thing in the first place, remember? > > Not marketing targeted at geeks? Honestly that came later, although it has worked pretty well, no? /lauri _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
