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 <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> 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-
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
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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