Regarding names
On Tue, 2011-11-01 at 00:14 +0000, Alex Valavanis wrote:
- Thinking about it, do we really need two separate PPAs? As far as I
understand it, we can get multiple recipes to build in a single PPA. We can just create separate source packages ("inkscape-stable" and "inkscape-trunk") and use them to build similarly-named binaries in the same PPA. Should be easier for users that way. We can specify the binary packages as conflicting, to prevent any dependency hell.
Shouldn't the stable package be called 'inkscape' unless the package is older than the inkscape shipped with Ubuntu.
My rationale here is that the Ubuntu Software Center uses a cached set of desktop files to provide meta data as well as a website to provide screenshots and a service for ratings and reviews.
If we split up the stable stream so we're not replacing the Ubuntu shipped version, then all that data will only point to Ubuntu's inkscape and not to upstream inkscape. Thus giving us a bad appearance in the software center and splitting the reviews between the Ubuntu official and upstream sources. (this may be what you want to do though, matter of policy).
I don't think the provides would cure any of these issues, but perhaps this is a non-issue.
Regards, Martin