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The two are unrelated. We are experimenting with the idea of using Snap packages to distribute Pipewire, Wireplumber and things like libcamera. The primary reason is to make it eas…

Oops. I've resubmitted with a working link https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46694103

Maybe - likely we’ll trade-off the added build/test/storage cost of maintaining each variant - so you might not see amd64v4, but possibly amd64v5 depending on how impactful they tu…

Great, thank you! I'll do that!

Starcraft as in *craft, as in they work on all the crafts - the star is a wildcard :)

No, this is an orthogonal effort. We have two channels for distributing software in Ubuntu: the archive and the snap store. Each are suited to different scenarios. Irrespective of …

Indeed, we'll need to be very careful to ensure that a new tool doesn't preclude our contribution to Debian, nor complicate our ability to work as a functioning downstream. Early v…

No, that's an unfortunate naming collision. Canonical’s debcraft will be a close relation of snapcraft, rockcraft and charmcraft, built using the craft-application and associated l…

Yes, candidates for the team will still be expected to go through our usual hiring process.

Earlier this year, Canonical’s Ubuntu Engineering organisation gained a new team, seeded with some of our most prolific contributors to Ubuntu. Debcrafters is a new team dedicated …

Flatpak works fine with Ubuntu, it's just not enabled/installed by default. The Flatpak website has some instructions which I just tested successfully: https://flatpak.org/setup/Ub…

Author of the post here, happy to discuss or answer any questions you might have!

Author here, made a classic mistake and published the wrong link. New post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42296289