On Mar 29, 2010, at 11:00 AM, Attila Csipa wrote: > On Monday 29 March 2010 08:07:06 Marius Vollmer wrote: >> all the good stuff in them, because they know that these repositories >> are well-maintained and backed by a community: packages are not >> abandoned, and they can expect them to be updated when necessary. > > Yes, we have not talked about this much but if you take a look at the > gronmayer list now, you'll see that a good chunk of repos there has shut > down, > taking into oblivion their packages, too, and to make things worse, they > nearly all miss the source section (most likely an unintentional oversight).
Also a potential violation of the GPL. > Also, consider that the QA/testing process we have is a 'light' (and > occasionally buggy ;) version of what happens in large distros (i.e. if you > have trouble complying with Maemo's requirements, Debian stable compliance is > > lightyears away). Indeed. > The historical distros have all been through this phase of > 'zillion packages from all over the net' and evolved towards centralized > repositories for a reason (while keeping the *ability* to install whatever > you > want). I still think (and will lobby for) maemo.org supported PPAs as a > recommended (not forced !) solution for testing/devel/procedural problems, > instead of general repository anarchy. It might be the way to go. Jeremiah _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
