Re: Depends available in other PPA's

[Benjamin Redelings <benjamin.redelings@gmail.com>]

Hi,

    I'm Ben Redelings (http://ben-redelings.org) and I've recently 
joined debian-med on salsa.  I've been thinking about uploading some new 
phylogenetics / bioinformatics software, partly so that I can tell 
students in workshops "just type sudo apt-get install <packages> if you 
are running debian or ubuntu".

    For this use case, I probably can't tell everyone to run debian 
testing - a lot of people are going to show up running ubuntu.  What 
might you all recommend?  In theory ubuntu people could add debian 
testing to `apt/sources.list.d`. I have no idea how much conflict that 
would cause - perhaps ubuntu users could set the priority of testing to 
something lower than ubuntu in apt/preferences.

    I could also try to make my own PPA called 
bredelings/bioinformatics or something like this, and only maintain 
packages that I am interested in...

    Thoughts?

-BenRI


On 03/08/2018 07:59 AM, Tony Travis wrote:
> On 08/03/18 11:37, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > [...]
> > I admit I personally consider maintaining that PPA a nightmare and I
> > personally will not spent any time on it any more (since our the last
> > Ubuntu instance of the users I need to care for was replaced by a pure
> > Debian system).  You really need to expect outdated, unmaintained and
> > untested software in this PPA and I wonder whether we should really
> > advertise it if nobody really cares.  And sorry, no, I do not consider
> > uploads of random packages at the latest sprint "real care" if there
> > is no bugtracker support, no testing, etc. done.
> Hi, Andreas.
>
> OK, if everyone agrees that this PPA is now redundant I'll abandon any
> attempt to make use of it in Bio-Linux and, from my point of view, the
> PPA can be deleted.
>
> > I'm tempted to remove all of my own uploads to a) make more space which
> > is obviously needed and b) do not feel realiable for breaking any users
> > system.
> At present, the Debian-Med Ubuntu PPA is not used in Bio-Linux 8.0.8.
> The only systems that will break if you remove your packages are mine
> and I'll fix them. Please go ahead and remove your packages and, if you
> think the PPA is now redundant/harmful I think it should be deleted.
>
> Bye,
>
>    Tony.