[pkg-fso-maint] [Debian] Device-agnostic fso-frameworkd: ready to go!

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Donnerstag, den 30.10.2008, 01:01 +0100 schrieb Luca Capello:
> Now, the real problems :-(
> 
> 1) there's no easy way to install the device-agnostic fso-frameworkd
>    package, since we opted to avoid unnecessary dependencies [9] (this
>    is useful for people who wants to install fso-frameworkd on their
>    desktop systems).

Maybe a bit late, but did we consider providing a fso-config-nonphone
(or -desktop, or -debug) package with all hardware stuff disabled? If
so, fso-frameworkd could depend on the virtual package, and we can still
install it on the desktop. The user upgrading on the freerunner should
then hopefully notice that this package is not what he wants, and
install the right one.

In the long term, maybe frameworkd could be equipped by upstream with
hardware detection (or at least “device detection”), so that the config
becomes hard-ware independent again – or even obsolete by default,
similar to where the X server is heading.

> 3) upstream configuration system based on YAML is ATM less than optimal
>    for how Debian ships configuration files: after having read [11], it
>    seems the best option would be to configure fso-frameworkd at
>    postinst, which is IMHO per se overkilling and prone to errors.
>    Instead, I'd go on with the situation as it is and the end-user
>    should check the differences every time she/he upgrades to a new
>    fso-frameworkd version.

Yes, no problem. Those who did not touch their config will be fine, and
the others know what to do.

> 4) while the update-alternatives solution for the fso-sounds-* packages
>    is clean [12], however I'm not sure it takes care of local
>    modifications.  We should provide instructions to create a local
>    alternative with the highest priority, thus any upgrade doesn't
>    change the default.yaml link.  However, point 6) above is vital for
>    the ring- and message-tones configuration, too...

What point 6? 


> I'd like to upload the new fso-frameworkd package as soon as possible
> (at most this week-end), because I want to move on adding Ogg support
> and then fixing every pkg-fso packages to upload to main.

Note that milestone4 is expected this or the next week, so don’t worry
too much about backporting.

Greetings,
Joachim
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