I used to use this often as a user, before the time of ppa's.. I think perhaps it's been made redudant since if your wanting to run/test software not on your distro you can *usually* get it in a ppa built for your version of ubuntu. This is certainly easier for most folks. For anyone else who is looking to do a real backport, prevu isn't really the tool for them. Very nice tool, I appreciated and used it before it was in the archive even. My 2 cents,
Nicholas On 02/28/2012 08:26 PM, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote: > Hi all, > > I seem to be the only person to have done an upload of prevu in the > past few years. That has only been to make it aware of new release > names. I've never really used it myself. It was never updated in > oneiric to know about precise and no one seems to have cared enough to > file a bug about it. I was contemplating making it use > python-distro-info so new release names don't have to be manually > added, but it might just be better to remove it from precise. No one > is subscribed to its bug reports in Ubuntu. > > Is anyone still making use of prevu? Is there any use case that > backportpackage from ubuntu-dev-tools doesn't cover? > > Unless anyone speaks up, I'll ask the archive-admins to remove it from > precise. > > Thanks, > > -- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio > > Ubuntu Developer <https://launchpad.net/~andrewsomething> > Debian Maintainer > <http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=a.starr.b%40gmail.com> > PGP/GPG Key ID: D53FDCB1 >
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