[pkg-fso-maint] Slowly uploading to main: freesmartphone.org core packages

[Luca Capello]

Hi Joachim!

On Sun, 17 May 2009 23:17:08 +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 17.05.2009, 21:02 +0200 schrieb Luca Capello:
>>   I am not sure fso-gsm0710muxd should be a strict dependency: AFAIK, if
>>   you disable ogsmd, frameworkd does not need any GSM muxer (I do not
>>   know anything about cornucopia/libgsm0710mux).  The same should be
>>   true for ppp, I am not sure about python-serial.  Am I too much maniac
>>   or could this be a good thing?  The idea would be to provide a very
>>   minimal configuration with no active services.
>
> Note that every Dependency can be overturned by equivs. So, if a certain
> dependency is useful for everyone but a very small, tech-savvy part of
> the users then it should be a hard Dependency. Not sure if many will
> want to use fso-frameworkd without the phone functionality. I’d say:
> Make it a Depends until someone shouts.

Then it is fine with me.  My feelings came from two facts:

1) if people would like to install fso-frameworkd on their desktop,
   fso-gsm0170muxd is useless there

2) I really do not like when people decides for me, something I guess
   everyone knows by previous facts :-)

>> * fso-utils (fso-utils)
>> 
>>   This has not seen any update since August 2008, does anyone actually
>>   use it?  FYI, I have never did, but I have not done any serious
>>   debugging on frameworkd yet.
>> 
>>   One note: at least the Openmoko uboot-envedit Perl script should be
>>   removed in favor of uboot-envtools, which works on the Openmoko since
>>   version 20081215-1
>> 
>>     http://bugs.debian.org/512589
>
> I use mickeyterm and mdbus from time to time, and I think these are
> useful. I agree about uboot-envedit, which I haven’t used myself for a
> long time either.

I will (try to) look at it after having uploaded the "more" core
packages.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
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