Canonical is bringing
some very significant changes to Ubuntu and that includes a new way of
packaging and maintaining the system. That being said, the company will
continue to provide support for both the .deb based and .snap based
Ubuntu systems for a long time.
One of the most interesting decisions made by
Canonical in the past couple of years, if we ignore the Ubuntu Touch
systems, is to invest heavily in a new packaging system. An Ubuntu
version built on Snappy is already out, but it's not aimed at desktop
users. Now, Canonical is working to provide the first Ubuntu desktop
flavors packed with Snappy instead of the classic .deb, but it will take
a while.
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