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[Harald Sitter <apachelogger@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 1:28 PM, James Westby<jw+debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm interested in your opinions on what makes a good daily package.
> We know what makes a good package, but there are extra requirements
> for daily builds, which I am mainly guessing revolve around maintenance,
> but may include things in the package.

Some things that came to my mind

* low maintenance
* co-installable with stock archive packages
* sandboxed configuration data
* should never ever break ;-)
* upstream changelog data should be easily accessible
* in case of a stack a partial break should not break the whole stack
* should only depend on stock archive packages or packages within the PPA
* provide debug symbols
* not too big in size
* file moves across packages of a stack should not make those packages
cause file conflicts

I must admit that project-neon does not comply to all those things though ;-)

regards,
Harald