Comment 15 for bug 316858
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| Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) wrote Re: Configurable number of versions in PPAs | #15 |
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Consider the case where we have package foo 1.0 and foo 1.1.
Foo 1.1 supersedes foo 1.0. Currently, the only way to keep foo 1.0 published in a repo is to copy it to another PPA. This means creating (if not already done) a new team/person for that PPA.
When we have multiple PPAs per user, this will become a lot more convenient. The only issue is that it will eat more of your quota, but for most users we'll increase that so it's not an issue in practice. The end user can enable both repositories and then has two choices to install the superseded package:
1. click on the .deb and download it from the librarian
2. apt-get install foo=1.0
So, I'd like to understand from our users if/why this is a problem? Is there a better way that suits us all?