Hi, I have a question about how extras packages not in the user/* hierarchy interact with the application manager and updating.
As part of the FCam API, we have a package, fcam-drivers, which replaces the built-in camera driver modules with slightly modified ones. Previously, I've been listing it under user/Multimedia, but it's been made clear that that's against packaging policies, since it's not a end-user application. So, when we made a few minor bug fixes to it recently, I changed the section to 'utils', since there didn't seem to be any guidance on non-user/* section names, and that's what some other kernel-modifying packages use. I uploaded fcam-drivers 1.0.7 to extras-devel a few hours ago. However, I haven't received any notification in the N900 interface to update to the new package - I only have extras-devel enabled, and 'apt-cache pkginfo fcam-drivers' lists the new version 1.0.7. 'apt-get upgrade' does tell me it will upgrade fcam-drivers, but Application Manager doesn't know about any updates. Is this the expected behavior, or has the section change caused a problem? I know that non-user/* packages won't show up as installable, but if they don't appear as updateable either, how do we distribute bugfixes to fcam-drivers, for example, if the only way end users will get the update is through an apt-get upgrade? Thanks, Eino-Ville (Eddy) Talvala Computer Graphics Lab Stanford University _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
