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I was told two weeks ago the OVI thing would be fixed.

On power kernel, Niels says he has
1) removed all problematic packages from extras-devel and extras-testing
2) then cleaned package history from the database
3) imported only the latest version back in to extras-testing.

He says you should now be able to push that version to testing or upload newer versions without issues. I hope this fixes things for you.

Re: Ask the Council!
 

Confirming that kernel-power v49 is in extras-devel (web interface). Thanks for the help.

Re: Ask the Council!
 

Keep your thanks until promotion to (at least) testing ;)

Re: Ask the Council!
 

Well, my thanks are for SD69's help/effort, he is not the one to mess with the database, so if promotion is still locked for whatever reason, it is not his fault.

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Not fixed yet! See my comment in bug:
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12522#c9

Thanks! I will try to promote kernel-power packages (v49) to extras-testing.

Re: Ask the Council!
 

@SD69:

We (Maemo Community) needs more people with access to Extras-* repositories.

For example package rootsh (http://maemo.org/packages/view/rootsh/) version 1.5 which is in Extras has bug in uninstall script. This problem is fixed (and working without problem) in version 1.8 which is only in Extras-devel.

Only maintainer can promote package from Extras-devel to Extras. But maintainer of rootsh is off and nobody can fix this problem.

So in Extras is buggy SW, but fixed in Extras-Devel. I'm sure that there are more buggy packages (which are fixed in devel), but nobody has permission to promote it.

This problem with rootsh SHOULD be fixed ASAP - not in next year (as kernel-power). SD69, what can you do as memeber of Community Council? I'm suggesting (again) that Nokia (or X-Fade?) should add repository permission to Community and NOT only to maintainers of package.

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Bug is marked as fixed. Can other people check if Ovi repository is really fixed?

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i don't know if there was another Concil (IRC) meeting since the last one i attended (12th of Jan), but i meanwhile noticed that NOKIA store doesn't list the N900 anymore :(
doesn't mean the repository can't be there anymore, of course (in fact it is still possible to download (OVI) apps deb packages with aptitude download), but, well, not promising :confused:

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AFAIK the n900 is a end-of-life (EOL) product nowadays so wouldn't expect too much support for it..

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my understanding was that as far as support was concerned, the N900 was more or less DOA...
well, on intensive care, maybe ;)