On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 04:37:44PM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: > > Can't answer that as I don't run Ubuntu nor know what version of > > Xastir binary they have. > > I've got an idea... What about creating a PPA for Xastir on Launchpad.net? > > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas > https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA
Who do you propose will be the person to create that PPA and maintain it? Are you volunteering? To date, most Xastir developers don't maintain binaries for any platform (Curt used to maintain an LSB binary for Linux, but I don't know if he does anymore). It's hard enough to have the time to work on the code itself. I don't see that changing in short order. PPAs are a fine approach (I use the UbuntuGIS PPA for some machines, precisely because that group updates some packages that have bad versions in Ubuntu official repositories), but even they need maintainers who are going to keep on top of the thing. If one or more of the Xastir *users* of Ubuntu on this list were to volunteer to do this, it would be cool, so long as that person were committed to keeping it up-to-date. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM In some cultures what I do would be considered normal. -- Ineffective daily affirmation _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
