Comment 10 for bug 210112

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Scott Kitterman (kitterman) wrote : Re: [Bug 210112] Re: FFe for EnvyNG

>The code was reviewed and we worked together so that EnvyNG could not
>cause any problem to Ubuntu. Furthermore EnvyNG relies upon my PPA
>(reviewed by Ben Collins), thanks to which I can update the versions of
>the drivers without having to update EnvyNG. The drivers in the repo use
>DKMS and don't break anything since they coexist with Ubuntu's l-r-m
>without problems.
>
By policy we don't take software updates from 3rd party repositories. The
fact that it's hosted on the same service as Ubuntu doesn't make it any
less 3rd party.

N'ACK from me. This doesn't mean it's not a great package, but this is a
pretty fundamental policy problem.