[Sugar-devel] Proposal: Document proposed distro tweaks in INSTALL file (Was: Browse-106)

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 10:31:46AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>2009/4/2 Luke Faraone <luke at faraone.cc>:
>> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>>>
>>> Please help distributors by documenting such config options that 
>>> might be relevant to adjust for some distributions.
>>>
>>> I propose to use an INSTALL file in the root of source tarballs for 
>>> these kinds of notes.  I propose to only add such INSTALL file if 
>>> there is special things to be aware of, not mandate it for standard 
>>> blah blah (as the GNU project do, I believe).
>>
>> +1. This would be of great utility for downstream, and is in general 
>> just a good idea.
>
>Sounds good, who could contribute a starting point for them?

I imagine each developer would know already what was applied more as an 
example or a fallback, being relevant for some contexts to adapt.

When distributors like myself stumble across some need for customization 
it off course makes sense to make you aware of it. (for Debian I already 
separate "global" patches (i.e. possibly relevant for you upstream) and 
local adjustments (i.e. only needed for Debian Policy, my packaging 
style or similar).

 From the top of my head, I can imagine the following packages that would 
be nice to have such INSTALL hint (yes, I should file bugreports about 
each of them - just mentioning here out of laziness and perhaps give a 
more clear idea of the concept):

  * Browse: Homepage
  * Browse: Proxy settings (e.g. Debian should *disable* any tweaks!)
  * sugar-toolkit: default Jabber server

  - Jonas

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