Proposal for a Debian Packaging working group

Revision as of 16:14, 26 February 2010

The role of MeeGo working groups are explained at http://meego.com/about/governance

This is a request to the Technical Steering Group to approve the creation of a Community working group.

Mission

Ensure that it's possible to build Meego systems based on DEB packages.

Areas

• Improve the infrastructure whereever needed to correctly support Debian packages (both source and binary).
• Decide of the packaging policy for Debian packages provided by Meego (it might diverge from the official Debian policy for various reasons).
• Provide and maintain the "debian" directory in all Meego software repositories.
• Provide DEB-powered alternatives for end-user applications dealing with package management (graphical application installer for example).

Rationale

While the founders of Meego have clearly selected RPM due to availability of some testing/QA infrastructure coming from Moblin, there's no technical reason why DEB could not be used to build alternate Meego system images. The OBS build system is already able to cope with Debian packages and the number of contributors with a Debian background is sufficiently important to provide the required packaging files.

Official DEB support will avoid useless Meego forks and ensure that everybody is able to work as close to upstream as possible.

Contributors

MeeGo members interested in taking an active role in this working group. Please detail your interests and what you can contribute to the group:

• Raphael Hertzog / buxy - Debian developer, self-employed as free software consultant/developer. I'd like to use my long experience as Debian developer to ensure that we do the proper technical choices to make Debian packaging as easy as possible in the context of Meego.
• Julian Andres Klode / jak - Debian developer, interested in packaging stuff.