On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 12:08 PM Arnaud Ferraris <[email protected]> wrote:
> As DebianOnMobile maintainers, we agreed a while ago that mobile-tweaks > would mostly hold cosmetic tweaks, and not be used to significantly > alter the system behavior. Almost a year down the road, do we want to > keep it that way? Or can we drop all mobian-$device-tweaks packages and > add features to the existing $device-tweaks ones? > Hello everybody, Thank you Arnaud for the detailed email. Few thoughts around the packaging strategy: Users will probably install non-free packages like kernel and drivers by running a Debian installer or flashing the SD card directly rather than doing apt install on a running system. Also, task packages like task-laptop tend to ignore non-free packages. Therefore, maybe there is no need for "mobian*tweaks" packages to depend on non-free packages. Having tiny packages for every supported platform could be a bit too granular. (right now my phone has 7 mobian-* + *-tweaks packages installed) As an alternative the mobian-tweaks package could detect the underlying device and configure the required files. With the added benefit of being able to ask questions to the user or run configuration commands. Limiting the number of *source* packages should decrease the effort to upload new releases and ensure that the binary packages are upgraded in lockstep where needed. Bye, -- Federico Ceratto
