https://michel-slm.name/tags/ppa/ Recent content in Ppa on Pensées de Michel Hugo en-us <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CC BY 4.0</a> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://michel-slm.name/posts/2026-06-22-introducing-dbranch/ Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://michel-slm.name/posts/2026-06-22-introducing-dbranch/ <blockquote> <p><strong>Caveat lector</strong></p> <p>This post discusses tools reluctantly written with AI assistance. If you don&rsquo;t entertain using them under any circumstance, and think even reading about them legally compromise your ability to reimplement them yourselves, stop reading now</p> </blockquote> <p>Today&rsquo;s post introduces <code>dbranch</code>, a tool to update a Debian package in unstable, and rebuild downstream branches (currently supports Ubuntu PPAs and stable proposed-updates; backports support could be easily added once I have a package that needs it). Eagle-eyed readers might notice the naming similarity with my previous tool <a href="https://crates.io/crates/ebranch">ebranch</a>; and the credit for the name and inspiration eventually came from Jens Petersen&rsquo;s <a href="https://hackage.haskell.org/package/fbrnch">fbrnch</a>.</p>