[Lubuntu-qa] replacing the Startup Disk Creator in Lubuntu 16.04 LTS

[Israel]

On 09/17/2015 04:40 PM, Aere Greenway wrote:
> On 09/17/2015 01:19 PM, Phill. Whiteside wrote:
>> for that to be considered, it would have to be in the debian
>> repository[1], which would require a sponsor and it being packaged up
>> as a .deb etc.
>>
> And beyond that, the main Ubuntu distribution is/was planning to
> switch to a new packaging system (not Debian).
>
Yes, however the snappy packages will be able to contain deb files as
well.  They are not abandoning the debian format entirely, this is a
move to enable the easy ability to roll back the entire system if an
update breaks things, if I understand everything correctly.

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