dak and maemo
Hello,
My name is Jeremiah Foster and I work with the debian-perl team
helping to maintain packages in debian. I also maintain the swedish
package.
Recently I have been working with the maemo.org team helping them
with packaging and other debian related issues. maemo is a debian-
derived distribution from Nokia designed to run on internet tablets.
One of the things maemo is thinking of doing is moving to dak to
maintain its repositories. dak seems to do the things we need it to
do. We have about a hundred packages incoming daily, we do today
anyway, and a little over 1500 packages total in the current
distribution with the belief that more will be coming in. It is hard
to estimate how big maemo's repos will ultimately be, but 10,000
packages seems unlikely while 2,000 seems possible this year.
We think dak might be the right tool for the job, but I have been
scared off a little by many of the warnings in the various README
files and by the lack of documentation. I am happy to help in those
regards, in fact, I have set up a dak HowTo page on the debian wiki
though there is not much there yet. I realize that dak is an internal
debian tool, perhaps never designed for use outside of debian, but as
more projects use debian and debs, maybe dak should be better
documented for use outside of debian?
Is dak what we want to use?
Thanks,
Jeremiah
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