Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 27th Nov 2007 21:09 UTC, submitted by diegocg
Canonical is announcing the availability of PPA: a Launchpad-integrated free service which allows anyone to get 1 GB of space to upload whatever software they want. Launchpad will compile it automatically and will set up an apt repository with your package to anyone who wants to use it. Aditionally, PPAs offer bug reporting and translation services.
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Member since:2006-06-21
You still have to prepare a proper debian source package to have it compiled and packaged.
True, but Canonical's initiative is meant to simply adress the needs of devs who already do this, but can't be bothered to jump through the hoops to make their package an official Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora etc. package.
These people often set up a couple of directories on a webserver, tell people to add the URL to their apt sources and that's all.
Canonical gives them free hosting space and a bug tracker. That's all an individual developer or small team needs to get going: easy publication and organized feedback. It's a brilliant idea.
If I ever complete any of the minor projects I've been hacking in my spare time, I'll definitely use this service to offer Ubuntu and Debian packages. I wouldn't be suprised if all kinds of projects would flock to this offer.
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2005-07-26
You still have to prepare a proper debian source package to have it compiled and packaged.
Personally, i think that as long as most "core" packages are kept in the main repos (both debian, and ubuntu has a massive collection) problems should be kept at a minimum.
There is, of course, a chance that this might cause breakage if people publish, and compile against non standard libraries etc. of their own, overriding the default core packages from the official repos, as adamw pointed out to us...
Only time will tell i guess.