Comment 59 for bug 712521

Norbert, thanks for all your work (and thanks to the other folks in Debian's TeX team). Personally, I don't really use TeX yet (except for making minor updates to a shared presentation with a grad student I work with), and am quite busy with Ubuntu's docs and desktop teams. I strongly agree with working upstream (I am part of the GNOME Docs team and Debian's GNOME Team) and hope that the TeX users on this bug report will become TeX contributors and help you out with testing and packaging.

The PPA does help somewhat in that it makes it easier for future Ubuntu contributors to see what the current packaging is.