On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 5:42 PM Seth Arnold <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 09:28:32PM +0000, Marco Ceppi wrote: > > Has anyone deprecated debian packages yet in favor of snaps? My end goal > is > > people who've installed the debian package from the xenial archive will > get > > an updated debian package which no longer is the software but instead > > either guides them to installing the snap or installs it for them. > > This sounds like a surprising and inconsiderate thing to do to our > users. There's probably still time to get your transitional package into > yakkety before feature freeze (or file for a feature freeze exception) but > once it was shipped in an LTS we've agreed to support it for five years. > (Where "support" is of course variable -- for main, we support it. For > universe, the community supports it and someone will sponsor updates.) > Well, it's either that or basically anyone who installs the debian version from the archive just deals with an out of date, never updated, version of the software. That to me, as a maintainer of a software project, feels more inconsiderate. I ask because I'd like to get my users the latest bits, but there seems to be no way for me to have a snap "conflict" with a deb package (which, I get is the whole point). So now, if you snap install, /usr/bin/ still takes priority over /snap/bin. This means I have make sure not only to tell people to snap install the software, but also uninstall the previous deb packages. I can only imagine this leading to a lot of confusion as updates are released in the snap but aren't reflected on users systems. > Be sure to consider how 16.04 LTS -> 18.04 LTS upgrades will work. We also > support LTS to LTS upgrades. > It sounds like I simply need to pull my packages from yakkety now. I don't plan on continuing to build debian packages going forward. I just don't see a point in it.
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