Comment 54 for bug 578045

I am the developer of Asunder (an application), and a frustrated user pointed me to this bug. The issues discussed in this bug very much apply to me. I've been carefully going through the various options described in this bug, this one especially looks promising though it's not entirely clear to me how it works currently (or whether it does at all):

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AppDevUploadProcess

I just wanted to point out that this:

"The only way you are going to make this better is to get the upstreams to do the requisite packaging work and make the packages available as updates through software-center by publishing them via the web site for managing one's applications published to Ubuntu."

is unfortunately unrealistic. When I just started my project I spent a lot of effort building it and some effort promoting it, but never did I seriously consider getting into packaging - it's simply too much work, that needs to be repeated too often for too many different systems. Practically every linux distro has its own packaging standards and/or repositories.

Now I barely have enough time to fix critical bugs, and I feel like I did my good deed for the week just because I took the time to go through this bug :) I'm definitely not going to get into packaging my software, I thankfully rely on other volunteers to do that.

So even though it's tempting to think that the app developers should do this - belive me that's not going to happen on a large scale unless Ubuntu has over 90% of the linux market (which is unlikely to happen in the near future).