Support more systems on the PPA
cobalt2727 opened this issue · comments
Could you try messing with the package settings to support more architectures and 18.04 if possible?
@eddelbuettel runs the PPA, we'd have to take it up with them
id like to get into the main repos of debian/ubuntu but because of the previous license we couldnt before and also i have no idea how to do any of that
@MrGlockenspiel I am actually a card-carrying Debian dev (since 1995) and could upload and adopt but sometimes ... that is work and I frankly unaware of whatever standards we use for desktop apps (or whatever categories this falls into). (I also have no sway over ftpmasters: if they find something amiss in terms of licensing there is little you can do apart. Apart from changing and complying which, generally speaking and absent of specifics, is the sensible way.)
Simple PPAs are so much easier...
18.04 support (ideally, if all goes well without a build failure) can be added by opening https://launchpad.net/~edd/+archive/ubuntu/misc/+copy-packages while you're logged in and copying the packages to additional Destination series
Adding support for more architectures is way easier, just check some extra boxes on https://launchpad.net/~edd/+archive/ubuntu/misc/+edit
@cobalt2727 With all due respect: I said I am a Debian maintainer; you ask about a (seriously outdated) Ubuntu release. Not the same thing.
If you have an itch for different things at Launchpad, just apply to Launchpad and create your PPA as you evidently do not even have to do anything to the activate-linux sources: just take'em from my PPA.
For me this was a mostly one-off endeavor once: I set up the package, I updated it once, I ran it twice and likely tweeted twice. I don't really have all that much bandwidth for activate-linux, and for what it is worth I run 22.10 on my server (likely going to 23.04 very soon) and 23.04 on a laptop. So that would be a polite "no I won't" from me.
Fair enough.