[DC LoCo] Is this a good way to verify a PPA?

Ken Stailey kstailey at yahoo.com
Tue Dec 6 21:41:15 UTC 2011


> From: Luke Faraone <luke at faraone.cc>
> To: Ken Stailey <kstailey at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "ubuntu-us-dc at lists.ubuntu.com" <ubuntu-us-dc at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2011 4:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [DC LoCo] Is this a good way to verify a PPA?

> This is only useful for that version of the package. The PPA author
> may upload a new version of the package, which you might not notice.
> Alternatively, the PPA might suddenly provide other packages, which
> (unless you configure apt pinning) will replace existing
> packages. So I could suddenly release a new «nautilus», for example.

Thanks for pointing out those limitations.



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