Proposing a New App Developer Upload Process

[Scott Kitterman]

Sebastien Bacher <seb128 at ubuntu.com> wrote:

>Le 05/09/2012 14:43, Scott Kitterman a écrit :
>> Unless you want a BSD like o/s - applications split, this new process
>is not going to affect core apps like Chromium or Gimp.
>Not sure what you call "BSD like", but it would be great if e.g Gimp
>was 
>moved out of universe to the end of upstream and maintained in a more 
>flexible way that what we do at the moment, they would probably do a
>way 
>better job than we do (we have number of upstreams who are unhappy
>about 
>us shipping a version "known to be buggy" of their code in our stable 
>release, or distro patching things in a way they don't approve of, or 
>not taking updates to fix the issues they fixed on their side for
>months).

BSD Unix's ship their core o/s in /usr and this is what is released with a new "release".  All applications install into /usr/local and are continually updated through their various ports systems:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ports_collection

IME, the Debian/Ubuntu archives do a far better job providing a consistent, reliable experience than you get from such an approach and we would be heading down the wrong road to try and replicate it.

Scott K