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2010-04-12 , 13:06
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PR1.2 SDK and the Extras autobuilder

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,
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.


MeeGo forum is now live

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.
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.



In this edition...
  1. Front Page
    • PR1.2 SDK and the Extras autobuilder
    • MeeGo forum is now live
  2. Applications
    • Using desktop Linux keyboard & mouse with Maemo and x2x
    • Chromium (aka Google Chrome) ported to Maemo 5
    • Forthcoming improvements in fMMS powered by PR1.2
    • ...and 6 more
  3. Development
    • Moises Martinez porting Maemo 5's hildon-desktop to Ubuntu
    • Should daemon applications (such as SSH & ntpd) require the "CLI" icon?
    • Google Summer of Code ideas going for voting soon
  4. Community
    • What is a community space? MeeGo debates
    • 2010 Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit in San Francisco this week
    • April maemo.org sprint meeting
    • MeeGo's Community Working Group tries to define a work queue system
  5. Devices
    • Why the first MeeGo device launch needs to be big
    • How to take N8x0 MeeGo layer forward?
    • Returning Amsterdam loaned devices
    • Diablo community SSU finds "interesting" behaviour with build flags
    • O2 Joggler for £49: runs Mer and Ubuntu, with promise of full MeeGo
  6. Announcements
    • Firefox mobile 1.1 is coming soon
    • Advanced Geocaching Tool
    • uktrainplanner to give live departure & platform information for UK's National Rail
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Last edited by Jaffa; 2010-04-12 at 13:56. Reason: Encoding issue pointed out by lma
 

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