Request For Candidates: Application Review Board

[Martin Pitt]

Stephan Hermann [2010-08-26 11:32 +0200]:
> So, what James and you are thinking about is something like Slackwares tgz format,
> it's a prebuild binary packaged with tar.gz and put a wrapper around which installs the 
> simple app under $HOME/Apps/ (example!!!) for user only installations. Therefore the install script 
> (maintainer script) only needs user permissions. 

I don't see anything wrong with using .debs for this, and just placing
restrictions on it -- such as having no maintainer scripts at all, and
all files in /opt/<packagename>/. There needs to be one exception for
their .desktop files, of course, but this is orthogonal to the
packaging format. Ideally we woudl just have a dpkg.d script or
trigger which integrates new .desktop files in /opt/; I didn't think
about the details of this yet, but this is clearly a solvable problem.

Martin
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Martin Pitt                        | http://www.piware.de
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