Niels Breet has, in this month's maemo.org sprint, picked up a task to sort out the issues caused by the deployment of the PR1.2 SDK to the Extras autobuilder. This has resulted in new uploads from developers often getting dependencies more severe than they actually require, and users who are testing in Extras-devel and Extras-testing getting confused. Andrew Flegg, the Maemo Community Council chair, introduced a discussion on maemo-developers, saying,
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After the PR1.2 SDK was released, Niels deployed it to the autobuilder; enacting a plan which was discussed on this list. This has caused problems with libhildon dependencies, but the problems aren't just limited to that library. Both Niels and the Council believe we should do something to assist.
Although "real" end-users (who use Extras) are unaffected, anyone with an idea on how to meet the requirements now - and the next time this situation could occur - is welcome to contribute. The current leading option is one based on a deploying a newer debhelper and dpkg-shlibdeps to the autobuilder. This would mean that every package would have its minimal dependencies necessary for it to work.
Reggie Suplido, the founder and administrator of Internet Tablet Talk (now talk.maemo.org), has put together a new vBulletin forum install on meego.com.
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Let me thank everyone who helped test the single sign-on (SSO) functionality, the MeeGo forum themes and browser compatibility, and those who contributed their ideas on the forum structure. A special thanks to folks from MeeGo, Nokia, Intel, and The Linux Foundation for making the forum possible. As with any new system, please pardon the bugs that we might have overlooked or features that we might have missed to implement. I would ask however to report the bugs you might find at Bugzilla and suggest additional features in the Community Working Group forum.
The forum's low traffic reminds your editor of the days before, and just after, the launch of the Nokia 770 back in mid-2005; if for no other reason than it's possible to read every post! The MeeGo community is still very young, so this is a chance for all mobile device enthusiasts - especially those interested in Maemo - to get involved at the very earliest stages.
Just a big thanks really, do like the news catch-up and it looks like alot of effort is going into it. I also like the top-downloads bit added to the apps news area.
