@Andrew: What is your take on this idea? It would somehow feel wrong to use the rdiff-backup name in a PPA without your approval.
// Andreas On Tuesday 27 January 2009 01:08:59 Andreas Olsson wrote: > Right now I'm working on moving my rdiff-backup debs from a private > repository to a Launchpad PPA. In that process I got an idea... > > Unless you'r familiar with with Launchpad and their PPA, now is a good time > to find out :) Feel free to visit https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA > > The idea is to have some kind of (semi-)official rdiff-backup PPA providing > updated packages of rdiff-backup to Ubuntu. This could be something really > useful, considering Ubuntu 9.04 (jaunty) will be the first release shipping > packages from the current rdiff-backup stable branch. > > For example; Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy) provides rdiff-backup 1.1.15 by default > while Ubuntu 8.10 (intrepid) provide a somewhat patched rdiff-backup > 1.1.16. Both thse Ubuntu releases will most definitely be around for a > while. > > Provided there are some kind of official sanctioning I should be able to > take care of maintaining such a repository. By now I'm starting to get > quite familiar with both rdiff-backup and the debian packaging system. Of > course, it would probably be a good idea to have a few people helping out > the testing.
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