[rdiff-backup-users] Ubuntu rdiff-backup PPA?

[Andreas Olsson]

Right now I'm working on moving my rdiff-backup debs from a private repository 
to a Launchpad PPA. In that process I got an idea...

Unless you'r familiar with with Launchpad and their PPA, now is a good time to 
find out :)  Feel free to visit https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA

The idea is to have some kind of (semi-)official rdiff-backup PPA providing 
updated packages of rdiff-backup to Ubuntu. This could be something really 
useful, considering Ubuntu 9.04 (jaunty) will be the first release shipping 
packages from the current rdiff-backup stable branch.

For example; Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy) provides rdiff-backup 1.1.15 by default while 
Ubuntu 8.10 (intrepid) provide a somewhat patched rdiff-backup 1.1.16. Both 
thse Ubuntu releases will most definitely be around for a while.

Provided there are some kind of official sanctioning I should be able to take 
care of maintaining such a repository. By now I'm starting to get quite 
familiar with both rdiff-backup and the debian packaging system. Of course, it 
would probably be a good idea to have a few people helping out the testing.

-- 
Andreas Olsson
http://www.andreasolsson.se/

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