HI again,
This becomes somewhat more complicated than it perhaps is.
On 02/07/2024 02:08, Soren Stoutner wrote:
Although I generally agree with your conclusions, using a PPA is the type of
end user task that involved them making modifications to the repositories on
their systems. I would assume that anyone who has done so, and who is already
running Linux instead of Windows, is fully capable of handling a “downgrade”
to an official package. Asking users to remove the PPA they manually added and
install an official package doesn’t really seem like that hard of an ask to me.
But this is not about replacing the PPA with the official packages.
For various reasons opencpn tends be released just after a Debian
release in summertime, and the Debian version thus quite outdated when
it hits the Ubuntu repos.
For Debian users we backport opencpn which works well. However, the
Ubuntu backport process is, well, interesting (been there, done that).
The PPA represents a much better way to publish backports to current
Ubuntu branches. But for this to work we need to reset the versioning so
it works together with the official stream from Debian.
Anyway, seems we have a emerging conclusion that an epoch is a correct
solution here.
--alec
