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[Oliver Grawert <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx>]

hi,
On Mi, 2013-04-10 at 02:21 +0800, Ma Xiaojun wrote:
> Regarding to documentation and whether packaging is hard, let me give
> some dummy questions for you to reference:
> 
> 1. What's the necessary initial setup? (What packages to install,
> anything else?)
> This seems documented somewhere.
well, you as the developer of the app should be able to tell which
libraries you used additionally to the ubuntu api (which i assume are
only very few anyway)

> 
> 2. After downloading the source package of foo from
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/ , how can I re-build it?
> 
> 3. What the h* is a source package?
> 
> 4. How to create a (minimal) source package from scratch?
> 
> 5. What's the best practices in packaging? (I also find some other
> FOSS annoying mostly in this way, it is very hard to know what is the
> best practice.)
> 
> 6. How to deal with lintian warnings / errors?
> 
none of this should be of interest for you as an app developer, what we
finally implement in the sdk should be as minimal and bulletproof as
possible so that you will not have to care for these bits (note that we
are on ubuntu-phone here ... i consider phone apps different from say,
packaging apache for which knowledge of all of the above would be
required but you also wouldnt have an SDK or a well defined platform
api)

ciao
	oli

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