continuing conversation from UDS-N - Application Review Board

Allison Randal allison at canonical.com
Thu Nov 18 17:51:40 GMT 2010


On 11/18/2010 09:22 AM, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Philipp Kern [2010-11-17 11:35 +0100]:
>> FWIW (and I didn't see this raised in this thread) FQDNs do not need to be
>> registered with the LANANA and can be used instead of a registered string
>> (see [1]).  So if you distribute the packages through extras.ubuntu.com
>> anyway, it might make sense to reuse the same name here.
>
> I think that's a nice idea. It avoids namespace collisions (with host
> names being unique), and denotes more clearly where they come from.

Sounds like a winner, any objections? If not, I'll modify the proposal 
to use /opt/extras.ubuntu.com/<appname>, to be discussed at the next TB.

Allison



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