On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 10:47 +0200, Michael Nelson wrote: [...] > If you use the PPA page as a user or developer, I'd love to get your > feedback and suggestions as well as your own mocks if you have time. [...] Dear Michael, I am a member of the Bazaar Developers, bzr-core, and Ubuntu PowerPC Architecture teams. As a user of Ubuntu on a PowerPC laptop (iBook), I use the Bazaar Developers team's PPA [1] to download the source code of new releases of bzr, build PowerPC binary packages, sign them, and upload them with signatures to the bzr project's download area [2]. If the PPA could accept binary package uploads for a source package that already appears in the archive but for a community-supported architecture, this would extend the usefulness of PPA's beyond just the official architectures. Binary uploads should be restricted to users who possess permissions to upload source packages. As it currently stands, PPA's are useless for all non-official [3](community-supported) architectures: powerpc, sparc, ia-64, pa-risc, power5 [4]. (For some reason, even though reference 3 was last updated 13 Sep 2008, it still mentions powerpc as officially-supported. Oversight?) As a member of the Ubuntu PowerPC Architecture Team I am interested in a place to post fixes for PowerPC bugs to allow testing. PPA is the closest I have to a "download" area on my personal account or that of the Ubuntu PowerPC Architecture Team. I filed a bug concerning this situation [5] back on 29 Jun 2009. Sincerely, Richard References: [1] https://launchpad.net/~bzr/+archive/ppa [2] https://launchpad.net/bzr/+download [3] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SupportedArchitectures [4] http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/hardy/release/ [5] https://bugs.launchpad.net/soyuz/+bug/393407
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