Proposing a New App Developer Upload Process

[Philipp Kern]

On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 07:42:14PM -0400, Michael Hall wrote:
> On 09/03/2012 04:03 PM, Philipp Kern wrote:
> > 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.)
> 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.

Hm, you dodged the issue of an app getting added to Debian/Ubuntu proper. Will
you forbid epochs so that people cannot do something silly?

Kind regards
Philipp Kern
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