Proposing a New App Developer Upload Process

[Michael Hall]

On 09/04/2012 10:45 AM, Scott Howard wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Michael Hall <mhall119 at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 09/04/2012 09:39 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>>> The problem isn't just with file conflicts with current packages, it's that
>>> these packages will now start using up distro namespace.  If some app
>>> developer package ships the file /usr/games/bird-game, even though there's no
>>> current conflict, there is a package sync'ed from Debian that also ships
>>> /usr/games/bird-game then there's a conflict we have to resolve.  In /opt in a
>>> proper vendor namespace this can never happen.
>>
>> If bird-game already exists in Extras, and then a different package is
>> allowed into backports that will install files into the same location,
>> then yes there is a possibility for a conflict.  But I assume part of
>> the backports approval process already checks for conflicts, as they may
>> exist with another package in the stable release already, so that
>> process could easily be extended to include Extras packages as well.
> 
> I think people are more concerned with auto-import from Debian than
> backports. Debian's approval process knows nothing about Extras, so
> there is no mechanism or approval process that checks for conflicts.
> 
Since Extras package won't be in the development release until
FeatureFreeze, we can check them against the new packages imported from
Debian before we forward-copy them from the previous stable release.


Michael Hall
mhall119 at ubuntu.com