Handing over considerately

[Philip Muskovac]

My personal recommendation for removing PPAs is to delete all of the 
contents so people can't install anything anymore, and then disable the 
PPA which will hide it on your Launchpad page. That way nobody will know 
that a PPA is there, won't be able to install anything, but the package 
indizes will stay in place preventing errors for people that were using 
your PPAs. Other than that I agree with Walter.


Am 15.11.2016 um 00:01 schrieb Walter Lapchynski:
> In general, [PPA][1]s should be assumed to be a thing you use at your 
> own risk. [This page][2] offers good advice on how to determine which 
> PPAs to use and which not to be. Suffice it to say, the take home 
> message is that the degree of reliability you expect in the main repos 
> is not something that should be applied to a PPA, even if, like the 
> Kubuntu PPAs, it is official to some degree. Consider the [Thunderbird 
> daily builds][3] provided by the Ubuntu Mozilla Team, for example. The 
> last time they successfully built was over a year ago!!!!
>
> What I would advise you to do, personally, is leave your PPAs there. 
> Simply change the description to note that the PPA is abandoned and 
> unsupported. If you're really good, you'll add a new version to each 
> of the packages that includes an install script that leaves a message 
> that it is unsupported :) Anyways, at least this way people won't have 
> their repositories breaking and complaining. Eventually other 
> repositories they have will supercede the versions in the PPA and it 
> will ultimately become unused.
>
> In any case, you didn't do anything wrong. People add PPAs far too 
> easily without understanding that they are unsupported and far too 
> many publications recommend them with no warnings.
>
> [1]: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PPA
> [2]: http://askubuntu.com/a/35636
> [3]: 
> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozilla-daily/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+builds?build_text=thunderbird&build_state=all 
> <https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-mozilla-daily/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+builds?build_text=thunderbird&build_state=all>
>
> On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 3:43 AM, Clive Johnston <clivejo at gmail.com 
> <mailto:clivejo at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     I get a lot of email from users, most are polite but some irate,
>     regarding the
>     Kubuntu project.  Just so I know I'm doing the right thing, I am
>     advising all
>     questions and queries regarding Plasma 5.8.* to contact the kubuntu-
>     devel at lists.ubuntu.com <mailto:devel at lists.ubuntu.com>
>
>     I also have an issue regarding a number of internet publications
>     who have
>     instructed their readers to use software from my personal package
>     archives
>     (PPA's).  I have since removed my PPA's but still get angry emails
>     regarding
>     broken and/or missing packages.  To date I have been referring
>     them back to
>     the people who have written the articles for help and support.
>
>     Is this the right thing for me to do?
>
>     Clive
>
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