AppStream Ideas and Thoughts

Éric Araujo merwok at netwok.org
Wed Feb 16 04:33:58 PST 2011


Hi,

>> - make sure each package is free software;
> This can be easily seen from the package installation window?
Provided you trust the author.  There have been many cases where a
package proved to contain non-free parts, with or without knowledge of
the author.

>> - test and debug packages;
> Obviously this sort of thing is a responsibility of the software
> developer.
True.  A distribution tests on a lot of different hardware
configurations, though.

Regards


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