[PATCH website] downloads: add link to PPA for ubuntu/debian
Sean Farley
sean at farley.io
Wed Mar 8 05:46:25 UTC 2017
Anton Shestakov <av6 at dwimlabs.net> writes:
> 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.
I didn't mind it too much but it makes sense. I'll remove 'Debian/' and queue.
More information about the Mercurial-devel
mailing list