continuing conversation from UDS-N - Application Review Board

[Scott Kitterman]

On Thursday, November 18, 2010 12:51:40 pm Allison Randal wrote:
> 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

I did check to see if it should be extras.ubuntu.com or com.ubuntu.extras and 
that looks like the correct form:

http://refspecs.linux-foundation.org/LSB_4.0.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-
generic/pkgnameconv.html

I think this is the best option.

Scott K