Anyone still using prevu?

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio]

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On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Nicholas Skaggs
<nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com> wrote:
> 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,
>

Hi Nicholas,

Could you take a look at the backportpackage command from the
ubuntu-dev-tools package? As a former prevu user, can you see anything
that it is missing that prevu provides? If so, maybe we can file some
wishlist bugs.

One really nice thing about it is that it makes it dead simple to
backport into a ppa:

 backportpackage -u ppa:user/ppa package

Thanks!

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