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-== Problems ==
+Packaging is the making of a software package for use by a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package_manager package manager] in Linux distributions such as Fedora, Debian, or Ubuntu.
-This section is an attempt to summarize the problems distributions are having with packaging Sugar activities. Help from the activity maintainers to get them solved would be highly appreciated.
+== Common issues ==
-=== TamTam ===
+=== Publish source tarballs for each release ===
-* No source tarballs.
+Some packagers prefer to work from tarballs rather than the activity bundles.  This is because activity bundles contain built components instead of only source code.
-* XO specific hacks in the sound code.
-=== Speak ===
+''If your activity is part of Fructose follow [[Development Team/Release#Module_release|Module Release]] instead.''
-* No source tarball.
+* Make a source tarball as follows. It will be placed inside the dist/ directory.
+ python setup.py dist_source
+* Upload it on the web. If you need a server to upload it to, [[Service/shell|ask for a shell account]].  When you have access, create a directory under /upload/sources/honey for your activity and copy the tarball to it.
+* Update the Honey table on the [[Development Team/Source_Code#Honey|Source Code]] page with a link to the latest version. Add an entry if your activity is not yet listed.
-=== Scratch ===
+=== Create a trac component for your activity ===
-State unknown.
+Users or packagers may report problems with your activity, either;
-=== Ruler ===
+* enable the Issues feature in the GitHub repository, or;
+* open a ticket on http://bugs.sugarlabs.org, under the trac component, to request a ''component'' for your activity.
-* No source tarball.
+=== Check copyright and licensing ===
-* Hardware specific in that the scale of the ruler is hardcoded to the XO resolution and screen size.
-=== Record ===
+* Many translations lack copyright and licensing info completely or they provide just a boilerplate.The package maintainer should edit the .pot file to replace these:
-* No source tarball.
+ SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
-* Perhaps hardware specific.
+ THE PACKAGE'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER
+ PACKAGE
-=== Read ===
+When that is done, they should get in contact with each translator to
+make them adopt that improved boilerplate and themselves replace these:
-* Dependency on sugar-evince, which cannot be installed in parallel with evince.
+ FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>
+ YEAR
-=== Pippy ===
+When doing above, it makes good sense to also tidy the gettext hints to
+have proper info too, but that is just nice-to-have for semi-automated
+processing, not crucial as the licensing problem.
-* No source tarball.
+[[Category:Activity Team]]
-=== Paint ===
-* No source tarball.
-* C fill.so module - has source but no build process.
-=== Memorize ===
-* csound missing necessary patches on some distributions.
-=== Measure ===
-* No source tarball.
-* Currently hardware specific (?)
-=== Maze ===
-* No source tarball.
-* Weird error on Fedora
- from olpcgames import _cairoimage
- ImportError: cannot import name _cairoimage
-=== Implode ===
-* No source tarball.
-* Shebang/permission mismatch.
-=== Distance ===
-* No source tarball.
-* Shebang/permission mismatch.
-* Hardware specific?
-=== Bounce ===
-* No source tarball.
-* C code in the bundle.
-=== Etoys ===
-No known problems.
-=== Turtle Art ===
-No known problems.
-: But when we fold in Turtle Art with Sensors, we'll have to make sure that proper python math packages are loaded:
- from numpy.oldnumeric import *
- from numpy.fft import *
-=== Terminal ===
-No known problems.
-=== Jukebox ===
-No known problems.
-=== Log ===
-No known problems.
-=== Memorize ===
-No known problems.
-=== Moon ===
-No known problems.
-=== Analyze ===
-No known problems.
-=== Chat ===
-No known problems.
-=== Calculate ===
-Minor issue: depends on sharedstate module which isn't officially released. Distros packaging sharedstate separately rely on git snapshots of sharedstate.
-=== Browse ===
-No known problems.