Maemo Leste - Repositories and community packages

In-between our technical updates, we have another short update on our repository organization.

After the proposition and discussion we've had on our IRC channel and our bugtracker, we've reorganized our repositories into a nicer and cleaner structure.

In short, we now have a single pool containing all the packages and their different versions, for all the different dists that we support. This is mainly a nice way to keep a simpler repository structure, but also helpful when building devel packages, so their versions can be automatically incremented in a correct manner. Last, but not least, it allows us to easily support more than one dist, so we will eventually be able to support both Devuan and Debian at the same time.

Due to this, the repository entries in /etc/apt/sources.list require a small change - instead of the deb entries we've had:

deb http://maedevu.maemo.org/leste leste main
deb http://maedevu.maemo.org/leste-extras leste-extras main

We now have

deb http://maedevu.maemo.org/leste ascii main
deb http://maedevu.maemo.org/extras ascii main

With this, there is less ambiguity and it is easier for both users and developers to figure out which Devuan version Leste is currently based on, and will also allow easier upgrading when Maemo Leste rebases to a newer Devuan version.

So, to switch your existing Maemo Leste installations, just use the latter two links in /etc/apt/sources.list. Simple!

As for the images containing these changes, we are working on finalizing them and they'll be ready for our next blog update.