Re: [Pan-users] PPA Version update?

[Duncan]

DLSauers posted on Sat, 09 Feb 2013 19:35:32 +0000 as excerpted:

> Is there a schedule as to when the PPA is updated with DEBS for updating
> via apt-get.
> 
> There seems to a lot of updates to the program some which would be great
> to have, but the PPA doesn't seem to update since 5/12?
> 
> Thanks, but compiling has never been successful for Pan or any other
> program, just leads to lots of headaches I don't have time to deal with
> v. a nice quick and easy apt-get process update.

I know little about Debian/Ubuntu, but pan's last version release was 
0.139 "Sexual Chocolate", released on June 30, 2012, according to the 
home page.  That appears to be what you're running, based on your user-
agent header, and presumably, that's what distros (and PPAs, which IIRC 
are personal/project package repos much like gentoo's overlays, tho of 
course in gentoo's case they're source-based as that's what pan is) will 
be providing.

Everything beyond that is unreleased live-git only, unless someone is 
going to the work of releasing git-snapshot binary builds, which doesn't 
appear to be the case with your PPA.

And really, there wasn't much work on pan since June until the last month 
or so.  And the latest git code isn't claimed to be anything like stable, 
tho it's generally possible to checkout a commit from a bit earlier and 
get pan working if current git-master/HEAD won't run/build, as it's 
generally keep reasonably sane, just not every last commit is guaranteed 
to run or even build.  So unless you're prepared to not only build pan 
from sources, but to actually learn git at least well enough to checkout 
an earlier commit if HEAD won't build, you probably don't want git pan 
anyway.

There was a point when no releases were being made and git pan was all 
there was for anything even close to current, but Petr Kovar has been 
quite good at making releases once there's something new actually stable 
enough to release, so these days, as long as you're running the latest 
pan release version, you really do have the latest reasonably stable 
code, and you probably DON'T want anything newer unless you're prepared 
to do the full unstable live-git-build experience, which you've made it 
quite clear you're not, so...

-- 
Duncan - List replies preferred.   No HTML msgs.
"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman