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

[Kenneth Stailey]

--- On Tue, 10/12/10, Luke Faraone <luke at faraone.cc> wrote:

> From: Luke Faraone <luke at faraone.cc>
> Subject: Packaging newer software versions in PPAs [Re: [DC LoCo] thoughs about a tool to verify certain PPAs]
> To: "Kenneth Stailey" <kstailey at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "Daniel Chen" <seven.steps at gmail.com>, ubuntu-us-dc at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Tuesday, October 12, 2010, 6:00 PM
> 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 outdated in Debian, have you attempted to reach out to the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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Dear Yaroslav Halchenko,

As Debian Package Maintainer for FreeIPMI, I urge you to please take a look at this Ubuntu PPA since it provides the current version of FreeIPMI to all supported releases of Ubuntu.

https://launchpad.net/~nutznboltz/+archive/freeipmi

Thank you for you time and effort.

Sincerely,
Ken Stailey