Hello,

I have been packaging Wt for Debian and Ubuntu, and providing
backports for Ubuntu, for years now.

So far, Wt packages were just one more citizen amongst the many other
packages in my PPA [1]. Invariably, I received complaints and
suggestions pointing in the direction of chaos and havoc: installing
Wt from my PPA and running 'apt-get full-upgrade' meant many packages
were updated (just try and do that on a Hardy: half the distribution
is upgraded :-). Some of the updated packages were as essential as
g++, Boost, Qt, Samba, ALSA and GStreamer. While I seldomly broke
anything, I understand people would be worried for their systems,
especially people running servers.

>From today on, Wt packages will no longer be available from my PPA but
from a new, dedicated repository: the Wt PPA [2].

The Wt PPA contains only the essential packages required to install Wt
on a basic system. You do not need to enable backports, proposed or
anything: just add the Wt PPA repository to your out-of-the-box Ubuntu
and install the libwt* packages. Currently, packages for Hardy,
Jaunty, Karmic and Lucid are available. Packages for Maverick will be
available as soon as bug 647597 is fixed.

I hope you enjoy it.

[1] http://launchpad.net/~pgquiles/+archive/ppa
[2] http://launchpad.net/~pgquiles/+archive/wt
[3] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcc-defaults/+bug/647597

-- 
Pau Garcia i Quiles
http://www.elpauer.org
(Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)

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