[needs-packaging] ppa-purge

[Joe Mulloy]

ppa-purge is very useful because without it there is no easy way to back out of a ppa. When I used Gentoo portage would happily downgrade packages if the ebuilds for the current version did not exist in the active repositories. Unfortunately apt/aptitude are not this smart and will just leave newer packages alone if the ppa is disabled or removed. If it's so easy to install experimental packages from a ppa, it needs to be equally easy to undo the changes and cleanup the system.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

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[Dag Odenhall (dag.odenhall)]

This is packaged in the ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa PPA and the lp:ppa-purge branch has a debian directory. Big +1 from me, PPA are for experimentation and it's important to be able to experiment without messing up your system and to be able to back out.

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

Taking ppa-purge 0.2.6 as starting point.

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

Published.

Thanks.

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ppa-purge (0.0.0.0+bzr46-1~getdeb1) lucid; urgency=low

  * Upload to getdeb (LP: #521449)

 -- Christoph Korn <email address hidden> Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:17:32 +0200

[Lorenzo De Liso (blackz)]

Package uploaded on REVU: http://revu.ubuntuwire.com/p/ppa-purge

[Fabrice Coutadeur (fabricesp)]

unsubscribing sponsors: the right way to get sponsorship is described in the https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Contributing#Preparing%20New%20Packages page

[Dominic Evans (oldmanuk)]

shouldn't this just be packaged as part of one of the existing software-properties packages, rather than as a whole separate deb?

[Dominic Evans (oldmanuk)]

(ppa-purge is very useful btw, so great job on it! :D )

[Lorenzo De Liso (blackz)]

ppa-purge (0+bzr46.1) maverick; urgency=low

  * Initial Ubuntu release (LP: #521449)

 -- Lorenzo De Liso <email address hidden> Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:02:50 +0200

[Lorenzo De Liso (blackz)]

We can't get ppa-purge in debian, as debian does not support PPAs.