Yea, definitely not trying to detour good people from doing good work, but the current state is confusing to users and is likely to cause needless grief. Just remove the old packages from it and put a note in the repo that it is reserved for forward-compat. Even that is a *huge* step in the right direction.
** Description changed: There is an official-sounding PPA called chromium-daily, * https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/ppa However it only has version 18 released. This is ultimately confusing to end users. Suffice it to adduce two facts, Ubuntu 13.04 ships with - version 25 and the timestamp of last maintence is 14 months old at the + version 25 (7 versions ahead of the chromium-daily ppa) and the + timestamp of last maintenance in chromium-daily is 14 months old at the time of this bug report. The inactive PPA should be shut down or maintained. It causes substantially more confusion than good. If no one wants to maintain it, shut it down pendining someone else picking up the job. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1198529 Title: Chromium PPA should be revoked. Status in “chromium-browser” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: There is an official-sounding PPA called chromium-daily, * https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/ppa However it only has version 18 released. This is ultimately confusing to end users. Suffice it to adduce two facts, Ubuntu 13.04 ships with version 25 (7 versions ahead of the chromium-daily ppa) and the timestamp of last maintenance in chromium-daily is 14 months old at the time of this bug report. The inactive PPA should be shut down or maintained. It causes substantially more confusion than good. If no one wants to maintain it, shut it down pendining someone else picking up the job. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1198529/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
