[sane-devel] SANE Backends 1.0.31 released / Goodbye / Ubuntu PPA

[Kelly Price]

Is work being done for sane-release?

On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 8:05 AM Rolf Bensch <rolf at bensch-online.de> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Am 02.09.20 um 14:49 schrieb Olaf Meeuwissen:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Olaf Meeuwissen writes:
> >
> >> Ralph Little writes:
> >>
> >>> What will happen to your PPAs? Are you planning to hand that over to
> >>> someone else?
> >>> I know they are a big deal for many people, including myself.
> >>
> >> Yeah, I realized I forgot to mention that a wee while after I dashed off
> >> my initial response.  I'm curious as well.  Especially because I've been
> >> thinking of getting rid of our daily date-stamped source tarballs.  I've
> >> only been keeping those alive for your PPA really :-)
> >
> > Just thought I'd let you know that Rolf, Ralph and I are working
> > off-list on getting the maintenance of this transferred to Ralph
> > and myself.
> >
>
> Now the new Ubuntu PPA is online:
> https://launchpad.net/~sane-project/+archive/ubuntu/sane-git and I'll
> stop providing updates to my PPA
> (https://launchpad.net/~rolfbensch/+archive/ubuntu/sane-git).
>
> The new PPA will be maintained by a group, so changing personal
> responsibilities won't affect the users anymore.
>
> The last update from my PPA will automatically change the package
> manager configuration to the new PPA, so you don't need to care about
> switching the PPAs.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Cheers,
> Rolf
>


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