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What about a reduced Ubuntu-PPA? - contadino - 2024-04-02
With sorrow i read the news, that there will be no more PPA for Ubuntu. This will face me (and many others?) with some serious problems getting new versions of Kodi on the system.
For not beeing too much inside Linux, i can just hope to manage the building of Kodi with the given manual. But there is still the concern, that the self-brewed Kodi kills my settings, in which i invested much time.
So i would like to ask:
Wouldnt it be possible to have a reduced PPA - just the current official version of Kodi for the current and LTE version of Ubuntu? Who wants to have a unstable or nightly version of Kodi will very likely have the skills to build this version on his own. So there would be only 2 versions of Kodi in the PPA with updates every 6 months. Wouldnt that be a solution which does not produce much workload but helps a lot of Kodi-users?
Or maybe just a last PPA-update for the upcoming Kodi 21, which seems to be the first Kodi since very long time that has no audio-issues with linux systems?
RE: What about a reduced Ubuntu-PPA? - Fuzzard - 2024-04-02
There has been no team member who has shown interest in managing the team PPA for years now. So no, there will not be a team PPA in any form.
RE: What about a reduced Ubuntu-PPA? - contadino - 2024-04-04
Sad story...
I would do it, but i do not have the technical skills for that.
RE: What about a reduced Ubuntu-PPA? - Prof Yaffle - 2024-04-05
I think the problem isn't just Kodi - it's all the other packages. The PPA currently has 1244 separate packages; for Ubuntu 22.10 "Kinetic" alone, there are 187 packages, plus 208 for "Jammy", plus...
Building and packaging all of these as effectively separate applications is a huge overhead, which one person has done unfailingly for many years. It's too much of an overhead, though, as even LTS plus current would be maybe 400+ builds for every iterative release.