Most of the utilities I use on N900 are old versions, and upstream development has fixed some bugs and added new features, so I would like those packages in Extras to be updated. Unfortunately, virtually every package maintainer I e-mailed answered that he stopped developing for Maemo years ago.

So, I will have to do the packaging myself. I want to install the N900 development environment on my desktop computer, but there seem to be two of them: Maemo SDK+ and Maemo 5 SDK Final. Which one is used nowadays? And are there any caveats about installing these ancient SDKs on contemporary Linuxes?

I hope I will get an answer someone with personal experience in setting up an N900 development environment recently. Please don’t just point me to the wiki or other general webpages, as that tends to be a maze of 404 errors.