Mainstream Linux Alignment

Let's list here bugs and enhancement requests relating to the Maemo architecture and its proximity/compatibility with mainstream linux standards. The progress on these tasks should bring easier life for application developers and also to platform developers willing to close ties with Debian, Ubuntu, etc.

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General upstream

IDPStatusSeverityVersionProductSummary (2 tasks)  
3827LowRESOLVEDenhancementunspecifiedDevelopment platformAddress upstream packages patched by Nokia 
3826MediumRESOLVEDenhancement5.0-beta2Development platformIdentify all packages that have relevant Nokia changes 
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Debian / GNU / Linux

IDPStatusSeverityVersionProductSummary (4 tasks)  
2896+HighRESOLVEDnormal5.0-beta2CoreBusybox prevents installing full versions of tools packages (cleanly) 
1621+LowRESOLVEDnormal4.1.2 (4.2008.36-5)Locationgpsd installed in /usr/sbin/ instead of /usr/bin/ 
3825LowRESOLVEDenhancementunspecifiedCoreMake busybox and coreutils work perfectly together 
752MediumRESOLVEDenhancement4.1 (4.2008.23-14)System softwareNo native support in glibc for Windows-1252 
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freedesktop.org

IDPStatusSeverityVersionProductSummary (7 tasks)  
1303+HighRESOLVEDenhancement5.0-betaDesktop platformHildon does not follow freedesktop.org standard, ignores ~/.local/share/applications[1]
3817LowRESOLVEDenhancement5.0/(2.2009.51-1)System softwareAll .desktop files should go to /usr/share/applications/ (deprecate use of /usr/share/applications/hildon/) 
3818+LowRESOLVEDenhancement5.0/(2.2009.51-1)Desktop platformMissing Icon Naming Specification compliance makes porting apps unneededly complicated 
3822LowRESOLVEDenhancement5.0-betaDesktop platformApplication menu should have enough top-level folders to match package sections[2]
3828+LowRESOLVEDenhancement5.0-alphaDesktop platformAct like a standard task navigator (don't rely on StartupWMClass) 
3913MediumRESOLVEDenhancement5.0-alpha-pre2CoreBind Maemo hardware keys to their own keycodes, separate from generic F-keys. 
657MediumRESOLVEDnormal4.1.3 (5.2008.43-7)Desktop platformTN inferring WMClass from Exec is prone to breakage, it should ignore quotes 
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GTK+

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