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[Barry Warsaw <barry@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 09, 2013, at 12:37 PM, Ma Xiaojun wrote:

>I guess we should not require painful DEB packaging any more, or we
>wrapper it nicely.

It's certainly true that learning how to package for Debian/Ubuntu is a big
hurdle for developers.  It seemed a big mystery to me when I started to learn
how to do it.  Now that I know how to package and have helped others get
started, I'm even more convinced that it's too high of a hurdle to require of
developers.

Learning how to package the Debian way is worth the investment if you are an
Ubuntu and/or Debian developer (e.g. a core-dev, PPU, or DD), but IMO it's too
much if you just want to build apps for the platform.

-Barry