[Pkg-meego-maintainers] Hello MeeGo

[Jeremiah Foster]

On Sep 16, 2010, at 15:11, 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.
> 
> 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.).

This is a great idea, I say go for it.
> 
> 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].

Great.

> Do you think ITPs about that would be well perceived in these Frozen days or 
> should I/we wait until testing=Wheezy opens ?

ITPs are fine - they are not release critical (RC) bugs. So file as many as you see fit. As I'm sure you know, there are lots of people in Debian who have an N900, are interested in working on and using N900 packages, and know their way around Debian. I think you'll find people willing to help above and beyond just myself. :-)

Warm regards,

Jeremiah