[Pkg-meego-maintainers] Hello MeeGo

[Julian Andres Klode]

On Do, 2010-09-16 at 15:11 +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
> Hi dear pkg-meego maintainers, 
> 
> Now that MeeGo released some prelimary versions and despite the downturn of the 
> "Proposal for a Debian Packaging working group" [0], it sounds certainly 
> interesting to package what the MeeGo project develops.
> 
> Now there are two paths that can be followed:
> 
> 1) Create a MeeGo fork/clone that "Ensure that it's possible to build Meego 
> systems based on DEB packages and optionally managed by APT" (from the MeeGo 
> wiki page [0])
> 2) Package the software MeeGo creates on Debian.
Of course 2.

> 
> IMHO 1) might not be very difficult, but of debatable interest, as this would 
> not be shipped by default on official MeeGo images.
> 
> But 2) sounds interesting, at it will allow Debian users to develop for MeeGo, 
> with a pure Debian stack and/or allow to run MeeGo-based software on Debian 
> (think OpenMoko e.g.).
> The code is available on http://meego.gitorious.org and as you can see: there's 
> a huge codebase there. (Some of it are forks/patches over other upstream 
> projects, so not everything is of interest for Debian.)
One thing about sources: Should we package the tarballs contained in
upstreams SRPMS or should we base our work on the git repositories (or
both)? That is, should our upstream branches contain upstream's git
branch?

> 
> I plan to start packaging the meegotouch framework, beginning by libmeegotouch 
> then heading onto other bricks. I intend to put those packages under the pkg-
> meego umbrella, in git with a workflow similar as pkg-qt-kde guidelines [1].
The guidelines looks sane.

> 
> Do you think ITPs about that would be well perceived in these Frozen days or 
> should I/we wait until testing=Wheezy opens ?
I wanted to wait until after the release, to not distract people from
working on the release.

> 
> Cheers, and looking forward for collaboration, 

On a side note, if we want a website, we could maintain it in
http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-meego/pkg-meego.git directly (or use it for
other stuff) - this repository was setup automatically during project
registration.

-- 
Julian Andres Klode  - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member

See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.