Re: Guidance on deprecating debs for snaps

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

Re: Guidance on deprecating debs for snaps

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 5:42 PM Seth Arnold wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 09:28:32PM +, 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

Re: Guidance on deprecating debs for snaps

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 09:28:32PM +, 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

Guidance on deprecating debs for snaps

Hello! Today we have packages in xenial that provide software which I intend to provide as snap only going forward. Since I'm generally lazy, and don't want to do both snap and debs of the software, snaps are a huge win in simplicity of release for me. Has anyone deprecated debian packages yet