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[Albert Astals Cid <albert.astals@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 09 April 2013 19:12:37 Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> On Di, 2013-04-09 at 19:57 +0300, Zoltán Balogh wrote:
> ...
> 
> > Actually it is not that difficult and we have good tools. The pkgme,
> > pbuilder and the dozen of wrapper apps make packaging simple.
> > 
> > But regardless how good wrappers and how well automated toolchain 
we
> > invent to make it even more simple the developer still need to have 
the
> > information for the control file and at least have some idea what
> > license is the best for the application.
> 
> is there any reason to build the package (instead of uploading it to a
> PPA) ?

You are building a non-free app with ultra-secret-code and don't trust 
anyone so you do want to upload the source code to canonical servers.

Cheers,
  Albert

> all my above comments in this thread were solely referring to create a
> source package once you are done with programming and have a ready 
to
> run app (that you tested in qmlscene or by using a device (or even by
> using a yet to come emulator) in an unpackaged manner ...
> 
> there should be no need at all to build a binary package locally ... our
> sdk should just make sure a source package is created and probably 
have
> a "publish to PPA" button where the binary package then gets built ...
> 
> *if* someone wants to do a local build i would consider that an advanced
> task for which you can indeed use a pbuilder or some such ... generally
> creating a *source* package should be completely arch agnostic though
> and easy to automate from the sdk ...
> 
> ciao
> 	oli