I spoke with Steve Langasek about this a bit ago and the solution he mentioned was to convert your deb package into basically a stub package that prints a debconf note guiding the user to install the updated apps via `snap install`.
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 7:38 AM Mark Shuttleworth <[email protected]> wrote: > > Policy for non-core apps is that newer versions should be provided as > snaps, LTS-released versions should be maintained as debs (but not > updated to newer versions). > > By non-core I mean anything that is not in the ubuntu-core snap. > > By apps I mean things that would make a natural snap or (in the case of > libraries) snapcraft part. > > So Marco is exactly right to ask this question now, since we need to > evolve a best practice for how to socialize that there is a newer > version of the software available as a snap. > > Mark > > > -- > Snapcraft mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snapcraft >
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