Proposing a New App Developer Upload Process

[Scott Kitterman]

On Tuesday, September 04, 2012 03:12:05 PM Matt Wheeler wrote:
> On Sep 4, 2012 3:00 PM, "Michael Terry" <michael.terry at canonical.com> wrote:
> [snip]
> 
> > (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.)
> 
> That can be handled the usual way package name transitions happen (e.g.
> git-core), perhaps it could even be totally automated?

To do that properly requires the package namespace be unused through an 
upgrade cycle.  Since LTS to LTS upgrades are supported, that means that if an 
app developer package was added to 12.04, the soonest it could be reused 
appropriately for another package in a git-core -> git scenario is in 14.10.

If they are, in fact, the same package then it's not an issue, but if it's two 
different packages fighting over the same name as in the case of git, it's not 
trivially resolvable.

Scott K