ARB Review

[Scott Ritchie]

On 4/10/12 8:51 PM, Jono Bacon wrote:
> On 10 April 2012 20:48, Scott Ritchie<scott at open-vote.org>  wrote:
>> Not to get all technical solution to social problem, but these are all in
>> principle much simpler if we just programatically package apps with pkgme
>> and shove them in containers.  There would be limited exceptions (icons,
>> .desktop files, mime types), but those could in principle be handled
>> automatically on the developer portal ->  pkgme interface as well.
>>
>> I'm not sure of the current state of these tools, however.  James Westby is
>> one of the guys to talk to.
>
> We could do but we already require that submissions to the ARB are
> packaged. I agree though that this could make things easier for
> developers creating the packages.
>
>     Jono
>

Well, in a way it may simplify things if they weren't packaged -- if 
pkgme was providing all the packaging layers, then we wouldn't have to 
check those pieces every time.

This is in principle similar to just doing automated checks of the 
packaging (eg no maintainer scripts).

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie