Adding a hook to ubuntu-drivers GUI for a driver PPA
Timo Aaltonen
tjaalton at ubuntu.com
Wed Aug 19 20:55:43 UTC 2015
On 19.08.2015 23:46, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Jorge O. Castro [2015-08-19 16:31 -0400]:
>> I'll let Alberto answer here, I think the biggest issue is the time it
>> takes to get it into distro.
>
> What are you concerned about in particular? The act of uploading
> obviously doesn't make a difference; is it slow SRU queue processing?
> Or the 7 days maturing period? The latter is at least an excellent
> idea as after a new version lands in the distro (or PPA) once, you
> have a commitment to not break existing users; so they should be
> exposed to some field testing before releasing.
Let me chime in...
At least NEW processing can be slow. For instance nvidia version 352 has
been on wily queue since Jul 23rd. PPA's get new packages instantly..
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t
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