[Hamara-devel] Approach for Packaging in Hamara 2.0 "Svastik"

[Vikas Tara]

Hi,

This is something that needs to be finalised still.

We are proposing basing on debian testing so that there are newer
packages than stable.

However there are quite a few things which are not yet packaged in
debian testing but will be as it comes closer to stable.

Unstable often does have the packages, but unstable is not recommended
for everyday use.

We have also talked about having our own testing repo in between
upstream and our live repo. We would be able to maintain a test version
of svastik that way.

We have some options here to help fill the gaps:

1. work with (and encourage more people to become) debian developers to
help move things from unstable to testing to help meet our own release
cycle (good for everyone)

2. where that is not possible, use flatpak/snap approach to package
things from either stable or unstable

3. ideas where 1 and 2 are not possible?

Any other comments / ideas?



Vik