Comment 4 for bug 160654

Thanks for the comments. What I was talking about it maybe more
similar to apturl. Thanks, this is the first I've heard of it.
However, I was really talking about just having small files that could
be downloaded over http, which would then be double-clicked by the
user when they are on his desktop. I've never been a big fan of the
"let's invent a new URL format" solution when an http link would do
just fine. But in any case, apturl looks interesting and maybe covers
this need I was talking about, even though it's not exactly how I'd
implement it.

I'll just restate that I was definitely _not_ talking about having
developers host .deb files on their websites. I said this
specifically in my post. I was talking about installing programs from
the Ubuntu repos.

Thanks, I guess we could consider this closed since I didn't know
about apturl. I would be great to see people start using it.