[resending as mail bounced, lists should be fixed now btw] [Adding -developers] On Tue, December 30, 2008 17:05, Jiri Benc wrote: > On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:46:21 +0200 (CEST), Niels Breet wrote: > >> It seems that you are the owner of a repository with some packages not >> available in Extras. Is there a possibility for you to move all useful >> packages to Extras and shut your own one down? > > Done for chinook and diablo, component "main". All packages moved, > repositories deleted. >
Thanks for the effort! >> If you need any help with packages that need to brought over to Extras, >> please let me know. We will gladly help you with problematic packages. >> > > I still have a separate component "czech". It contains only one package, > posix-locales-cz > (http://upir.cz/maemo/dists/diablo/czech/source/posix-locales-cz_2.5.0-1o > sso1.tar.gz). > > The package adds a Czech locale support. But it's quite hackish, as a > locale cannot be just added - all of the installed locales have to be > replaced to achieve that. Thus, although it is just recompiled Nokia > posix-locales package, it has intentionally a different name and replaces > the original locales in its post-install script. > > I know, that's ugly. The question is - is that suitable for Extras? As it > is named differently than the original posix-locales package, it won't > be considered as an update to posix-locales, so it shouldn't cause any > problems for those who haven't installed posix-locales-cz. > > On the other hand, I don't know what will happen for those with > posix-locales-cz installed if Nokia decides to update posix-locales. It may > or may not work. It could probably be "fixed" by some deb dependencies > magic but I'm not skillful enough in that and don't think it's worth the > effort. > I would like to hear from other community developers what they have done to solve this problem? Did you also have to hijack the package or is there a clean way in doing this? It seems that replacing the original locales with your locales in a post install script is a bit evil and ugly. One shouldn't have to do that. And what if I want to add another locale? I think this is really where things start to fall apart. > Thanks for your opinions :-) > I am not afraid to say: "I don't know" :) > > Jiri > > > -- > Jiri Benc > http://upir.cz/maemo > > -- Niels Breet maemo.org webmaster _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
