Launchpad PPA for

[Ondřej Surý]

Um, why would you do that instead of migration to new upstream version?

Ondřej Surý

On 6.4.2011, at 17:39, "Torsten Schlabach" <TSchlabach at gmx.net> wrote:

> Hi all!
> 
> I have started a PPA for the current CVS version of the Cyrus SASL 2.1.24 lib at https://launchpad.net/~tschlabach/+archive/sasl2.
> 
> Well, not exactly current CVS, but the state as of March 24th, 2011 on the one hand. On the other hand, there are a number of patches in my sources to make the package build.
> 
> The commit of the gs2 patch on March 25th unfortunately broke my build, so I decided to stay on the state before that and work my way through some of the other oddities first.
> 
> IIUC, Launchpad only offers such a service for Ubuntu. The package is for the upcoing Natty release which is going to be Ubuntu 11.4.
> 
> Caution: I think I know how to build a Debian / Ubuntu package, but I am by no means an experienced expert. So I am sure there are a number of caveats. So feel free to help me test and improve my package. Maybe this will help to get a 2.1.24 release (shoudl there be one eventually) into Ubuntu and Debian in a timely manner.
> 
> Does anyone know of a similar publicly available service for Debian packages?
> 
> Regards,
> Torsten