What will happen to .deb in ubuntu?

Question

ubuntu

Good day. Heard that Ubuntu will do away with .deb. They seem to be making their own application center with their programs. I just don’t fully understand whether it will be possible for us to use the programs we are used to, or will we have to look for alternatives in the new application center? And I wonder what will happen to distributions that are based on Ubuntu.

Answer 1

1) They won’t do it, it already exists (more precisely, 2 - for desktop and for mobile; the one for desktop, by the way, was cut out in 16.04 and washed down by GNOME Software instead)
2) There is no failure yet, Snappy will develop in parallel, first the queue will be used for mobile phones, routers and similar things where updates in the form of snapshots are much more reliable
3) Packages can be installed in other ways - through the terminal or the same Synaptic (I use it all the time, demolished Ubuntu Software Center a long time ago)
4) With distributions nothing will be
In general, you heard something incomprehensibly where and from where. Nothing will change dramatically, at least for the desktop, in the foreseeable future.

Answer 2

Nothing will happen, 95% of the packages in Ubuntu are built from debian as-is without a single patch, all the movement is carried out by the debian maintainers.
Debians are not going to migrate anywhere => base ubunt will remain on .deb.
Here's another question, that there will be _another_ way to install programs. In general, it is very similar to the same docker - the program brings everything with it in one file, it runs in a container. The only question is that Snappy will be better integrated into the system.