[PATCH website] downloads: add link to PPA for ubuntu/debian

Anton Shestakov av6 at dwimlabs.net
Sun Feb 26 03:52:39 EST 2017


On Sat, 25 Feb 2017 13:02:15 -0800
heatherboo <heather.j.booker at gmail.com> wrote:

> # HG changeset patch
> # User heatherboo <heather.j.booker at gmail.com>
> # Date 1488054963 28800
> #      Sat Feb 25 12:36:03 2017 -0800
> # Node ID b91f88bda2404c91722a62a2eb9afc63867a172b
> # Parent  f8cee73d5cf0e9b4d46859c949ed0e23d65dd38c
> downloads: add link to PPA for ubuntu/debian
> 
> diff --git a/templates/downloads/index.html b/templates/downloads/index.html
> --- a/templates/downloads/index.html
> +++ b/templates/downloads/index.html
> @@ -114,7 +114,9 @@
>      GUI the most. It integrates Mercurial directly into your explorer.</p>
>  
>      <p>Packages for common Linux, BSD and Solaris distributions can be
> -    installed from the system specific repositories</p>
> +    installed from the system specific repositories:</p>
> +    <p>(Debian/Ubuntu: If you need a more recent version than what is available through apt-get, you can <a href="https://launchpad.net/~mercurial-ppa/+archive/ubuntu/releases">try the PPA</a>.)
> +    </p>

I don't think it should recommend PPA for Debian too, because using
Ubuntu PPAs in Debian AFAIU is literally just rebuilding binary packages
from source packages. Which is easier with `make deb`.

Otherwise LGTM.


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