Auto Package

[Sebastien Bacher]

Le mardi 29 mars 2005 à 18:18 +0100, Mike Hearn a écrit :

> - Software getting rapidly out of date. In Hoary, Inkscape and Gaim
>   are already out of date. These aren't minor insignificant apps!

Hi,

I'm just curious but what happen in these cases ?

* an user installs gaim 1.2.0 with autopackage which breaks the login on
ICQ account in some cases .. where is he supposed to do then ? How does
he knows what upstream to contact and how (sf bug tracker ?
bugzilla.gnome ? mail ?) ? 

* what is the upstream supposed to do ? Package the CVS ? Start updating
the package with CVS backports ? I'm not sure than all the upstream want
to start beeing packagers.

* what happen if the bug is distro specific ? Are the upstreams supposed
to know what every distribution is doing ?

* how do you handle distro changes ? By example we use sudo on Ubuntu,
the different desktop component are patched for that. The autopackage is
supposed to have special case for distros ? You say than the upstream
job is easy because he has to manage one package and not a deb/a rpm/...
but he has to know about such changes.


Maintaining a package is not only making a autopackage/deb/rpm/.. of the
new version, that's also to be sure then it works fine on the
distribution and you need to know the distribution for that.


Cheers,

Sebastien Bacher