On Friday 25 June 2010 22:17:39 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Hi folks, > > > I'm currently collecting a set of rules which upstream developers > should follow to make distro maintainer's life easier. > > Comments welcomed :)
My biggest beef by far when packaging apps is automagic dependencies. e17 is full of them - if package A is present, the app will configure itself to use it. Usually you cannot switch this kind of thing off even if you have valid reasons to do so. I want explicit --enable-<package> features in the ./configure step for everything that might be optional. Because I often do have that lib on my system and the app's usage of it is buggy, so I should be able to disable that support. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
