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Launchpad PPA doesn't keep superseeded packages to download If something goes wrong with current one

Asked by SOURAV DAS

From March or April, I have been noticing superseded package files are not kept as archives So that users/people can revert to the previous version if something breaks to them in the current version. So now there is no option left to downgrade packages as other distributions have this feature like archlinux [Downgrading process in arch](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/downgrading_packages)

Affected PPA: All PPA in launchpad including some I own(ppa:pipewire-debian/{pipewire,wireplumber}-upstream, ppa:pipewire-debian/testing)

              ppa:pipewire-debian/pipewire-upstream - https://launchpad.net/~pipewire-debian/+archive/ubuntu/pipewire-upstream/+packages?field.name_filter=pipewire&field.status_filter=&field.series_filter=focal (you can see, under section "Package files", "No files published for this package" error is showing for one of superseded release)

people are complaining everywhere for ref : https://github.com/pipewire-debian/pipewire-debian/issues/60#issuecomment-1128617704

Is there any method to keep previous release files up to last 5 release ?

Thank You.

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This question was originally filed as bug #1973782.

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Jürgen Gmach (jugmac00) said : 		#1

Converting this bug report into a question.

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Jürgen Gmach (jugmac00) said : 		#2

PPAs can have only one version per Ubuntu series.

If you want to offer e.g. an older or a new beta version, you need to create separate PPAs.

For example, the deadsnakes project, which offers Python binaries, has one PPA for the regular Python releases, and a "nightly python builds" channel, for the nightly builds, so those users, who really like to run bleeding edge software can do this, and probably report back issues.
https://launchpad.net/~deadsnakes

That is the way to go.

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