Re:Debian elects new project leader, PPA support proposed
by fideloper on Monday April 20, 2015 @10:36AM
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Typical use cases for me our to get the latest stable Nginx, PHP, HAProxy and similar popular packages without having to upgrade to a non-LTS release of Ubuntu.
This would be really interesting to see on Debian!
Re:Debian elects new project leader, PPA support proposed
by stephenr on Monday April 20, 2015 @11:15AM
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These types of things are already available (and I would wager much more stable than the type of thing found in PPA's) through third-party repositories like http://Dotdeb.org
Honestly I think PPA's only real-world appeal will be for desktop Debian users.
No one with any rational thought process is going to use a PPA sourced package on a server environment.
edit: missing closing parenthesis.
Re:Debian elects new project leader, PPA support proposed
by reubenmorais on Monday April 20, 2015 @11:46AM
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PPA support would just make it easier and safer to add repositories like http://dotdeb.org to your setup. I don't see how PPAs are any worse than manually adding entries to your sources.list file. They're almost the same thing, except the former a bit more automated.
Re:Debian elects new project leader, PPA support proposed
by blfr on Monday April 20, 2015 @01:14PM
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Nginx has their own non-PPA repository with latest versions, both stable and mainline.
http://nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html
The PPA is unofficial.
This is particularly helpful when working with LTS (Long Term Support) versions. I have many servers who are still 12.04. I need to install Node 0.12, but the official packages are stuck in 0.6. PPAs make this possible without having to build from source or otherwise hack your way around the system.