Talk:Contents manifest specification

What use is this?

OK, the Activity_bundles spec says it's required, but it's a complicated gibberish format, without any tools to generate it. Is this just a useless paper spec? Do applications *actually* have to include a manifest, sign it, etc? Until there are real tools for anybody to easily make one, my app isn't gonna have one...

Let's go back to RPM, or preferably Deb. This not-invented-here packaging system is just painful.