[DC LoCo] Packaging newer software versions in PPAs [Re: thoughs about a tool to verify certain PPAs]

[Luke Faraone]

On 10/12/2010 04:55 PM, Kenneth Stailey wrote:
> As an example take this:
> 
> https://launchpad.net/~nutznboltz/+archive/freeipmi
> 
> I produce it because I use it because it provides something I can't get elsewhere: consistent FreeIPMI for supported Ubuntu releases.  If you work in an environment with a lot of computers that use Ubuntu like I do you may find you want hardware monitoring to be the same on all of them.  We use OpsCode Chef to deploy FreeIPMI and hook it into Nagios.

I'm curious, why don't you instead backport the package? The package is
outdated in Debian, have you attempted to reach out to the Maintainer
there about updating it?

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