Before getting to my reply I should point out two things: * I work on snapd itself, and think it's the bees' knees and the way forwards for getting software into its user's hands: all the convenience of a PPA, without needing to give unconstrained root to random people on the internet. Also, you can point people on SUSE and Fedora to it as well.
* I have tried three times in the past ten years to become an Ubuntu member / developer, and gave up three times in frustration after getting nowhere for months; I'm at this point sceptical of the whole self-selected elite thing. It certainly works to generate bureaucracy and roadblocks to doing what you want, namely getting software into people's hands. On 4 June 2017 at 14:40, Joseph Smidt <josephsm...@gmail.com> wrote: > let me know what is the best way to get some of these free security packages > into official Ubuntu repos. I think snaps is what you want :-) I think your best bet is to use snapcraft, craft a snapcraft.yaml that works to package the tools into a *strict* snap (this might involve working with us in snapd to add interfaces, if what the tools do isn't already covered by existing ones) (note you can make a snap private, if the tools in question have a license that doesn't let you distribute binaries), and then offer that snapcraft.yaml to upstream. They can tie this into their CI so they'd have a snap autobuilt and pushed to edge for every commit, and have separate tracks for different concurrent stable revisions if they have that, and get stats about users and such. HTH, -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
