Package naming clashes

[Sergio Schvezov]

Hi!

El 03/01/17 a las 06:42, Luther Goh Lu Feng escribió:
> I am sure that there is precedence and guidelines in place, but I couldn't to find the search result.
>
> Say someone in the community builds a snap for nginx, and later doesnt keep the snap up to date. Then another person builds a more updated nginx snap. How are the package names chosen so that there would be collisions, and people know that they are installing the latest working version?

Snap names that are really popular are all marked as reserved, so when 
you try to `snapcraft register` it you will get a "The name 
'<snap-name>' is reserved" and a link to a dispute form. A similar 
workflow for an already registered name exists.

> Is there some sort of handing and taking over for the package name from maintainer to maintainer? How is it done with Ubuntu deb packages at the moment? Thanks

There are mechanisms to share or transfer responsibility. Other new 
workflows to enhance the experience are coming. Are you facing a 
specific problem already?

In the case of debs, it is mostly free for all if you are a core 
developer or you can sign up to be a maintainer using the appropriate 
channels[1]. There is one caveat, it is rather easy while the 
distribution series is under development but if not, you need to go 
through the SRUing process [2].

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DeveloperMembershipBoard/ApplicationProcess
[2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates