Proposing a New App Developer Upload Process

[Michael Terry]

On 04/09/12 08:51, Michael Hall wrote:
> If the app is added to Ubuntu proper (directly or from Debian) for a
> development release after it is already in Extras for a stable
> release, the Extras package will not be forward-copied to the
> development release and the developer will not be able to uploaded it
> to the development release.

What about the following scenario?

We add an Extras package "foo" in precise.  Then in quantal, we sync in 
some new, unrelated package "foo" from Debian that happens to share the 
same name.  Now users that installed "foo" in precise that upgrade to 
quantal will be replacing their "foo" package with a completely 
unrelated one.

I imagine the easiest way to avoid this is to namespace the package 
names too.

(Though with namespaced packages, the user can end up in a weird 
situation if the Extras package "foo" does find its way into Debian and 
Ubuntu quantal.  Then, they really do want the "foo" package from Debian 
but are left with the non-maintained "extras-foo" from precise.)

-mt