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appstream package

  1. Bug #1861631
  2. Comment #19

Comment 19 for bug 1861631

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Naël (nathanael-naeri) wrote :

Hi Jonathan and Dan:

> I don't think either apt nor snap auto-updates will handle this.

I don't think so either, and nor will manual snap updates ("snap refresh" command).

My assumption is that deb-to-snap and snap-to-deb transitions are limited to development releases. It would be very surprising to have such transitions happen once a release is out, wouldn't it? But then again I don't know.

Canonical's Marcus Tomlinson, who implemented the special deb-to-snap/snap-to-deb logic in update-manager to fix bug 1868409 and bug 1872958, could tell us more, and let us know if we now need to do more than run apt to keep our systems up-to-date. But I'm not sure how to contact him or his team. This bug, or Launchpad in general, don't seem like the right place, as it's not a bug. Perhaps a mailing list (which one?), the Freenode IRC network (which channel?), Ubuntu Discourse or Ask Ubuntu are better places for this question.