[Bug 1654335] Re: Please remove get-iplayer from all future Ubuntu releases

[Steve Langasek]

Thanks for the report.  It appears that the get-iplayer package in
Ubuntu is inherited directly from Debian. Have you spoken to the Debian
maintainer about this?

Shipping in a PPA only suffers from the problem that users must discover
the PPA, establish that it's trustable, and manually enable it.  On
Ubuntu 14.04 and later, we now also support the 'snap' store, which
allows upstreams to deliver application packages directly to users on
their own schedule, independently of Ubuntu releases.  If this is of
interest to you, you can read about it at <https://snapcraft.io/>.  We
could also work with you to provide an automatic upgrade path from the
out-of-date .debs in stable releases to your supported upstream snap
(something which we could not automate for a PPA).

** Changed in: get-iplayer (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Steve Langasek (vorlon)

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