[sane-devel] SANE packages PPA?

2009-05-19 Thread Jeff Kowalczyk
It would be very helpful if there were an official PPA for SANE .debs. Ubuntu 9.04's use of libsane-1.0.19-23ubuntu7 would probably bring a substantial influx of willing testers with hardware, if there was an easy way to track 1.0.20 releases with an entry under sources.list.d. Could the git

[sane-devel] SANE packages PPA?

2009-05-19 Thread m. allan noah
PPA? sources.list.d? Plain English please? allan On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Jeff Kowalczyk jtk at yahoo.com wrote: It would be very helpful if there were an official PPA for SANE .debs. Ubuntu 9.04's use of libsane-1.0.19-23ubuntu7 would probably bring a substantial influx of willing

[sane-devel] SANE packages PPA?

2009-05-19 Thread Jeff Kowalczyk
On Tue, 19 May 2009 09:11:58 -0400, m. allan noah wrote: PPA? sources.list.d? Plain English please? Right, Personal Package Archive, a convention for Ubuntu (and Debian) users to publish .deb packages on Launchpad. If an individual were publishing the SANE test packages, a PPA might be a good

[sane-devel] SANE packages PPA?

2009-05-19 Thread jeffrey.ratcli...@gmail.com
On May 19, 2009 1:55pm, Jeff Kowalczyk jtk at yahoo.com wrote: Could the git snapshot machinery be extended to build .debs? Probably not. But there would be no need, as Launchpad provides a free service to build debs against currently supported Ubuntu distributions. It just needs a volunteer