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+ | = Maemo packaging policy proposals = | ||
- | + | Current policy: [https://maemo.org/forrest-images/pdf/maemo-policy.pdf Version 0.23] | |
== Package sections (Policy section 2.2)== | == Package sections (Policy section 2.2)== | ||
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Current section list seems to be confusing to both community developers and Nokia teams. All sections that were added by developers have been reviewed and this proposal is based on that result. | Current section list seems to be confusing to both community developers and Nokia teams. All sections that were added by developers have been reviewed and this proposal is based on that result. | ||
- | === Current | + | === Current situation === |
- | + | Section 2.2 currently reads: | |
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- | + | ''Packages are grouped into sections as in Debian, but SHOULD NOT specify a category | |
- | + | in the segment part. (However it is not a bug if a package taken from Debian and made | |
- | + | available in maemo retains its “contrib” or “non-free” segment.) | |
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- | + | Instead maemo defines a user segment for controlling visibility in the Application | |
- | + | Manager. Packages that are intended to be visible in the Application Manager MUST | |
- | + | belong to the user segment, and packages that are not intended to be visible (such as | |
+ | libraries and other dependencies) MUST NOT belong to that segment.<sup>2</sup> | ||
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+ | The section of packages in the user segment SHOULD be one of the following: ac- | ||
+ | cessories, communication, games, multimedia, office, other, programming, support, | ||
+ | themes, tools.<sup>3</sup> The sections in this list will appear correctly localized in the Applica- | ||
+ | tion Manager. | ||
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+ | As an example, to put a package into the Office section and make it visible to the user, | ||
+ | the value of the Section field in the debian/control file should be user/office. | ||
+ | Packages not in the user segment SHOULD use the sections listed in the Debian Policy | ||
+ | (http://www.debian.org/doc/debian- policy/ch- archive.html#s- subsections).'' | ||
=== Proposed sections === | === Proposed sections === | ||
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- | + | ''The section of packages in the user segment SHOULD be one of the following: desktop, development, education, games, graphics, multimedia, navigation, network, office, science, system, utilities. The sections in this list will appear correctly localized in the Application Manager. If the package's section starts "user/", but is not any of the above, the Application Manager will force them into an "Other" section.'' | |
=== Discussion === | === Discussion === | ||
- | * [http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail//maemo-developers/2008-October/035437.html | + | * [http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail//maemo-developers/2008-October/035437.html proposed] final list for Diablo |
* [[Task:Package categories]] | * [[Task:Package categories]] | ||
* [http://communitizer.blogspot.com/2008/04/rfc-maemo-package-guidelines-mandatory.html Communitizer blog] | * [http://communitizer.blogspot.com/2008/04/rfc-maemo-package-guidelines-mandatory.html Communitizer blog] | ||
* [http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/2008-April/033093.html Mandatory categories discussion] | * [http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/2008-April/033093.html Mandatory categories discussion] | ||
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