Proposing a New App Developer Upload Process

[Michael Hall]

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On 09/03/2012 04:03 PM, Philipp Kern wrote:
> David,
> 
> am Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 07:59:15PM +0200 hast du folgendes
> geschrieben:
>> * Review the spec at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AppDevUploadProcess
> 
> what happens in case of a namespace conflict with Debian? Given
> that apps are not only in dpkg's namespace of all installed
> applications, as they also refer to paths within /usr. Can a
> package in Ubuntu be updated through this process? Will a package
> that appears in Ubuntu proper supersede the application submitted
> through this process? Will the version for use by apt and dpkg be 
> prefixed, so that it does not collide? (I see todo items
> referencing a version numbering scheme, but I don't see it spelled
> out at first glance.)
> 
> Kind regards Philipp Kern
> 

Apps already in the archives won't be eligible for this process.  We
don't have any requirement on version prefixing, the work items are
there to make sure quickly and the lintian profile are using the
normal version numbering scheme.


Michael Hall
mhall119 at ubuntu.com
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