[URGENT] Postman publishing problems to the software center.

Bhavani Shankar R bhavi at ubuntu.com
Thu Nov 15 14:24:08 UTC 2012


On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 7:11 PM, David Planella
<david.planella at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Al 13/11/12 14:01, En/na Bhavani Shankar R ha escrit:
>> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Ed . <schumifer at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Bhavani,
>>>
>>> I'm not sure if I understand the issue correctly. So the problem is that
>>> the directory placed in the extras directory should not be called
>>> 'postman' but 'postman-image-uploader' or is it something else?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Dear Ed,
>>
>> Basically yes. If you see here:
>>
>> https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/search/?q=postman&op=
>>
>> The apps directory has one entry for postman in quantal, same version
>> in precise and another program called postman in 10.04 LTS.So kindly
>> rename the app to postman-image-uploader to avoid confusion in myapps.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>
> Thanks Bhavani for taking care of all this.
>
> Ed, just a quick note that this simply affects the name of Postman's
> binary file and its package. The app itself can still be named Postman.
>
> Also, as long as it is something different than 'postman', you can
> probably choose anything else that does not clash with the existing (and
> unrelated) postman package in the archive. Bhavani suggested
> 'postman-image-uploader', but I guess that if you prefer another name
> for the package and binary, you can choose whatever you like best.
>
> This will require changing the 'name' entry in setup.py to the new name,
> the bin/postman file to the new name too, and probably some other parts
> in the code.
>
> Cheers,
> David.
>
>

Thanks for the explanation David.

Dear Ed,

Any update on the above? :)

Regards,


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