On Tuesday 10 February 2009 17:20:17 Andrew Ferguson wrote: > I'm just happy to see more recent rdiff-backup packages appearing in > the Ubuntu universe. Many thanks for taking on this project. Many of > the bug reports in the past have been due to old releases. > > I have a launchpad account which is somehow associated with the rdiff- > backup project (so that I can manage bug reports). Let me know if you > need any help getting your PPA "blessed" or whatever, or if there's a > link I should put on the rdiff-backup webpage.
Okey, I'll start setting it up when I get home from work tonight. There is one part I'd like some advice on. That is whatever the PPA should donly contain prestine versions of rdiff-backup or it would be okey to include minor patches. For example; the rdiff-backup 1.2.6 I currently have in my private PPA is patched not to complain about pyxattr being old. This seemed okey since I know that involved Ubuntu versions actually include a sufficient new version of pyxattr. // Andreas > > On Feb 10, 2009, at 11:13 AM, Andreas Olsson wrote: > > @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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