Comment 62 for bug 280958

I have a problem with this whole "Most recent versions uploaded" concept.

I'll try to explain with my own experience..

I maintain a lot of packages in different PPAs, including firefox-3.5 (which is in karmic too; this is what led me to this bug).

Some people like to copy/rebuild my packages to their own PPA (i don't fully understand why but it's a fact), so their packages are "more recent" than mine, even if they have no added value, and are in PPAs clearly advertised as for private use only.

2 days ago, when firefox 3.5 was officially released, the whole community was looking for debs for their distro (mostly for jaunty and hardy) as we (the ubuntu mozilla team) only pushed it to karmic (so far [*]), and to PPAs.

I had a look at Launchpad yesterday, it presented 3 obscure PPAs, all incomplete and/or broken, neither the team PPAs nor mine were presented, clearly leading to confusion. All 3 were rebuilds with a new version in changelog, but without any change.

I received a lot of emails & dents (identica) asking me to clarify the firefox 3.5 situation (/wrt [*]), the new LP page is obviously not the source of those (as it's new) but it's a potential source of even more confusions in the future.

If not sorted by rank, the list of PPAs should show the last changelog entry, and possibly the PPA board, or something.