Proposing a New App Developer Upload Process

[Michael Hall]

On 09/06/2012 04:33 AM, Stefano Rivera wrote:
> 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
> 

No, but if you have two packages with post-install hooks trying to put a
symlink in the same place, one of them is going to lose.

Michael Hall
mhall119 at ubuntu.com