Tak, that makes sense, but I'm inclined to agree with Armin's outlook. (Though I haven't had time yet to set up the Maemo SDK, I've done other development, and hope to do some ports; I feel the same way.) I think a lot of the people who enjoy porting things are less likely to enjoy, or even put up with, the trouble of packaging, even with a standard sol'n to the technical issues.

Perhaps what we need is some packaging pros to team up with porters to get things packaged and reposited.