Proposing a New App Developer Upload Process

Stefano Rivera stefanor at ubuntu.com
Thu Sep 6 08:33:58 UTC 2012


Hi Michael (2012.09.05_23:56:04_+0200)
> Yes, or we could just allow the direct installation into
> /opt/extras.ubuntu.com/share/applications/.  But in doing so, we bring
> back the possibility for file conflicts because we're not isolating
> Extras apps from each other.

They aren't conceptually the same. If the file isn't in the package,
dpkg isn't going to see it as a conflict, and our collation tool can be
smart about it.

SR

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