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Before anyone gets up in arms about apt going away for the next release... no. Ubuntu Desktop Next is Canonical's playground for testing new ideas. 15.10 Deskt
by colindean 11y ago
Before anyone gets up in arms about apt going away for the next release... no.
Ubuntu Desktop Next is Canonical's playground for testing new ideas. 15.10 Desktop Next will use Snappy for sure, and IIRC 16.04 will be an LTS that may use Snappy if 15.10 DN works out exceptionally well. Snappy's insufficiently mature yet, IMO, and the effort to convert packages without a Snappy target for some equivalent of `alien` seems a bit gargantuan.
- caio1982 11y agohttps://launchpad.net/deb2snap https://launchpad.net/deb2snap
- ZoF 11y agoSo this lets you convert debian packages into a snappy friendly format? Is that why you're posting this link? Does it have a more specific meaning in this context? I'm just curious and wish you had posted at least a short explanation with the link. I don't like feeling stupid fellow human.
- caio1982 11y agoColin's comment touched a few different topics but in the end he talked about the effort of converting existing Debian packages to Snaps, and even mentioned Alien, which is an old converter of packages formats. This deb2snap is still WIP but it works fine.