Not to ad to your work :-) but would you consider creating an Ubuntu PPA to
distribute backports of the latest ROXTerm releases?

I see you recently released 1.18.2-1 for Ubuntu 10.10. I'm currently on 9.10,
and ideally run about 3 months behind the current stable release. That would
mean building packages for 3 Ubuntu versions, and likely 6 packages to cover
both 32-bit and 64-bit.

I'm assuming there must be a way to automate this using VMs for chroot. I see
the Mondo Rescue guys have a tool to automate building packages for multiple
architectures and distributions (http://trac.project-
builder.org/). It may be a good choice,
or there might be something simpler that just addresses this problem for the
Debian/Ubuntu universe.

-Tom

I think the PPA server automatically creates binary packages for the common
architectures so it does most of the work for you. It is something I have
considered, but mainly for releasing other packages rather than for
backporting roxterm.

I don't release the official Ubuntu packages myself. Judging by a notification
email I received something has recently been done to have it automatically
synced with Debian.

I think the PPA server automatically creates binary packages for the common
architectures...

Ah, terrific.

I don't release the official Ubuntu packages myself.

I wondered about that, as it did look like an automated build.

-Tom