FBReader is in Fremantle extras-devel
 

For what it's worth, the latest version of FBReader (0.10.7) is now in Fremantle extras-devel (http://bit.ly/unUkI). No Fremantle specific changes are made though... (The Fremantle Stars page is updated as well.)

Re: FBReader is in Fremantle extras-devel
 

Great! I hope that you could move libzlibrary out of "user/libs" category, for example to "libs". This way it won't be visible in application manager.

Re: FBReader is in Fremantle extras-devel
 

The "problem" is that some users cannot really install FBReader from a repository, so they download the necessary package manually and then install them one by one. If you know a way how to keep both scenarios working, I'd appreciate a hint :) Until then libzlibrary will stick to user/something... Sorry.

Re: FBReader is in Fremantle extras-devel
 

Personally I wouldn't support those users, but it's clearly your choice.

I really don't know what libzlibrary is about or if there is any other application using it. If it's strictly only for fbreader you could make only one package?

Re: FBReader is in Fremantle extras-devel
 

if they download libzlibrary directly they don't care about the category (user/* or something else); they just download the deb and install it (I don't think the Application Manager checks the category from local file ?)

So what does prevnet you from changing the category for this lib ?

Re: FBReader is in Fremantle extras-devel
 

Libraries cannot go in user/*. By choosing to do this you're impacting the likelihood of Nokia shipping Fremantle with Extras enabled. Do you really want to do this to support an extreme edge-case of users? Either way, this is really a non-negotiable guideline. Libraries don't go in user/*. End of story. :)

These users are more than adequately supported by apt-get.

Re: FBReader is in Fremantle extras-devel
 

Is this about FBReader in other platforms? It is fair to assume that all Maemo users can install applications with the Application Manager, and there they don't need to have the libraries visible.

Re: FBReader is in Fremantle extras-devel
 

That's exactly what happens: users do not care, but the application manager does :) So that's the application manager that prevents the change.

Re: FBReader is in Fremantle extras-devel
 

No, this particular change is specific for Maemo. :) Just to make this offline scenario working.

For desktop (Debian), the sections are 'text' & 'libs' (as proposed by one of the debian developers).

Re: FBReader is in Fremantle extras-devel
 

If a particular limitiation (for local packages) is not fixed in application manager, this might be the end of story of FBReader in extras :)

I would say that only quite specific users can be adequately supported by apt-get. And the reason why the section is user/* is because we need to support other users as well.

Any suggestions how to make this happen otherwise, are more than welcome.