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[Oliver Grawert <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx>]

hi,
On Di, 2013-04-09 at 11:01 -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> 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.

well, it shouldn't be to hard to have a form to present to the app dev
that fills in the five or so files you actually *need* in the /debian
dir which could be hidden behind a "create package" button ... after all
i would expect the packaging for mobile apps to be very reduced ...

ciao
	oli

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