On 2010-04-28 13:20, Dave Neary <dne...@maemo.org> wrote:
David King wrote:
In addition, once something fails, it's still a bit unclear from the
current docs about where to continue/repeat which steps.
Yes, this is hard to solve in such a compact tutorial, as there are lots
of steps where something could fail, and it is difficult to find the
right balance between proding too much and too little information.
Contributions welcome ;)
Sounds like there's a sufficient amount of material for a packaging
troubleshooting page?
It would certainly be possible, but much of what it might say is already
documented in the Debian packaging documentation, and other links from
the Packaging article. A general recommendation to ask on
maemo-developers would probably be better than trying to make
presumptions about possible errors. A troubleshooting page could then
be added if some common questions and answers arose.
A packaging tutorial really should only cover the most simple things,
and point people to canonical references where they can get more
information. The Packaging page has already gotten too long for my
liking, it seems like most people will only need about half of it at
this stage, and the other half is likely to be more confusing than useful.
I split off the section on porting a Debian package to Maemo, which
shortens the article somewhat. The majority of what remains is focussed
on Maemo packaging specifics, with several links to reference
documentation. The information in the new packaging guidelines page:
http://wiki.maemo.org/Packaging/Guidelines
could simplify the Packaging article further, but it is quite a long and
dry read, so leaving the summaries as they are might be preferable.
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David King | http://amigadave.com/ | dav...@openismus.com
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