[kwlug-disc] Ubuntu is replacing .deb with Snappy

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

Ubuntu will be moving away from .deb it seems.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/more-stable-future-ubuntu

http://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/

This is a major undertaking. Ubuntu used to capitalize on the fact that
debian has vast mostly centralized repositories with tens of thousands of
packages.

Now,Canonical will either have to a) re-roll all the packages from debian
on an ongoing basis as releases (very labour intensive), or b) settle for a
subset of what is available, thus causing less choice for their user base.

Usually a major change like that used to be rolled out to the community for
testing for a fair amount of time, and then when acceptance grows (or not),
it is gets into popular distros.

Snappy was announced in December of 2014, so it is only six months old ...

But of late things have been moving into a different direction: top down,
not bottom up as it used to be. The example is systemd's adoption in Debian
and Ubuntu.
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