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Why does nobody maintain PPAs anymore?
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Because they only work on one distro/package manager.
Distributing software is simply transitioning to work in a distro-agnostic way. It's only a matter of time until distros start updating flatpaks along with system packages. Many already do.
And some apps distributed as appimages self-update. (RPCS3 for example)
Not to mention that Ubuntu itself has basically ditched apt for snap.
PPA's are the reason why I stopped using Debian-based distros about 8 years ago.
For me, those have been the primary source of pain and anger. Back then, almost every dude had a PPA. Keeping track was hard. Not only that, but often those were full of other unrelated software or libs. The outcome was broken systems left and right.
PPAs are not for debian-based, they are Ubuntu-only.
I guess Canonical being money-driven would be wanting to cut costs so reducing packagers is a viable way. So what if many packages ship the same lib? It's all isolated and drive space is not an issue, right?
I think packaging is being already automated a lot today's
It is, but snap helps Canonical become the walled garden it wants to be, so let's bitch about how troublesome it is to do packages for all architectures omg what a downer...