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[Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Oh, my grammar!! "The dev version of chromium has now been added to raring
" Should read " A Raring dev version of chromium has now been added" to
this PPA. To save any further mis understandings, PPA actually stands
for Personal
Package Archive  [1]. So, ANY PPA is to be considered as untrusted, this
includes all the ones that dev teams create when they ask you go test
something out. I mistakingly thought that the testing team would understand
what a PPA is, how to add it, the risks and how to remove it. I'm glad to
set the matter straight.

Regards,

Phill.
1. https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA


On 15 April 2013 23:36, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Phil,
>
> The "PPA" you refer to [1] is not supported and, as I said, is not part of
> Ubuntu.  Your statement that, "The dev version of chromium has now been
> added
> to raring" is not correct.
>
> Scott K
>
> [1] https://launchpad.net/~a-v-shkop/+archive/chromium-dev
>
> On Monday, April 15, 2013 11:23:24 PM you wrote:
> > Hi Scott,
> >
> > The 'PPA' I think you refer to [1] is not supported, and has not been for
> > over a year. The Ubuntu team are simply concentrating on having SRU's.
> The
> > PPA link I provided states that is not 'official', and this information
> was
> > sent to the QA/Testing members only. I also stated that if they were to
> use
> > it, they should know how to 'roll back'. At present, there seems no
> formal
> > method of getting Chromium from 'dev', to 'beta' to 'released'. Security
> > updates from the current version on release to the dev version are over 2
> > release steps out of sync. which is not ideal, but out of my hands.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Phill.
> > 1. https://launchpad.net/chromium-project
> >
> > On 15 April 2013 22:14, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Monday, April 15, 2013 10:11:05 PM Phill Whiteside wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > whilst the ubuntu guys do ensure timely updates for chromium, there
> are
> > > > some of us who do not mind being on the bleeding edge. The dev
> version
> > > > of
> > > > chromium has now been added to raring. Please understand that this is
> > > > not
> > > > the 'stable beta' which seems to have fallen by the way side owing to
> > > > not
> > > > enough man hours. If you want to 'play safe' then use the standard
> > >
> > > upgrades
> > >
> > > > that apply, if you want to try out the 'dev' version, then add Alex's
> > >
> > > PPA.
> > >
> > > > [1].
> > > >
> > > > As with all 'dev' versions, it may break so do be aware of how to
> 'roll
> > > > back'. But, for me it only had a (non-critical) bug for a couple of
> days
> > >
> > > in
> > >
> > > > the last 12 months.
> > > >
> > > > @Alex, thanks for keeping the dev PPA updated.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >
> > > > Phill.
> > > > 1. https://launchpad.net/~a-v-shkop/+archive/chromium-dev
> > >
> > > Phil,
> > >
> > > Please keep a clear distinction between Ubuntu and other related
> things.
> > > There is an Ubuntu archive that's supported by the Ubuntu project.
>  Many
> > > people like to provide other packages in PPAs (such as this), but they
> are
> > > most emphatically not part of Ubuntu.  People installing software from
> > > PPAs
> > > need to do their own due diligence as there is absolutely no external
> QA
> > > or
> > > security checks done of what goes into a PPA, so it's important that
> > > people
> > > understand if they are doing thing from the official archive or not.
> > >
> > > Scott K
> > >
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