A collection of PPAs giving significant upgrades for the past 7+ years of
Ubuntu (LTS) releases. Popular software here: Blender, Chromium, digiKam,
FFmpeg, Firefox, GIMP, GPG, Inkscape, LibreOffice, mpv, Scribus, and VLC.

If software at this site is useful to you then please consider a donation:

*** Donations: https://paypal.me/Savoury1 & https://ko-fi.com/Savoury1 ***
*** Also https://patreon.com/Savoury1 & https://liberapay.com/Savoury1 ***

*** Several PPAs now need the new private PPA for successful installation:
Blender; HandBrake; FFmpeg 5, 6 & git; mpv & mpv-git; and VLC 3. Any other
PPAs, with many very useful upgrades, are still freely usable by all. ***

         *** Personal and Collective Responsibility Required ***
               https://medium.com/@RobSavoury/1ab067f738a4

Fun stats: Over 29,000 uploads since August 2019 of 5,500 unique packages!
(28 Sep 2023) With now 870+ unique packages published for 22.04 Jammy LTS,
2,080+ for 20.04 Focal LTS, and a whole lot extra for Xenial & Bionic LTS!

UPDATE (17 Aug 2023): Also https://bsky.app/profile/robsavoury.bsky.social
for new updates which will now be more frequent again in the coming weeks.

UPDATE (16 Nov 2022): Also https://norden.social/@RobSavoury for updates.

UPDATE (8 May 2022): See new https://twitter.com/RobSavoury for updates on
the many Launchpad PPAs found here, ie. new packages built, bugfixes, etc.

FFmpeg: Many PPAs at this Launchpad site depend on ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg4 as
version >= 4.4 is best and/or required for much other software. So, assume
that upgrading to latest FFmpeg 4.4.x will be required to use most of the
popular PPAs here: https://launchpad.net/~savoury1/+archive/ubuntu/ffmpeg4

ARM architecture: There are NO packages for ARM architecture published at
this site, due me not using Ubuntu-based systems on ARM myself. Thus it is
not at all a priority for me. Please do not bother asking for ARM packages
unless you are also willing to donate funds towards the work required. It
would be a significant effort, as every package for ARM architecture would
have to be re-uploaded, then build failures bugfixed (many unique failures
often happen on ARM that do not happen on other architectures), and so on.

*** Bugs: File bug reports @ https://bugs.launchpad.net/SavOS/+filebug ***

[ "SavOS" is the project heading for all packages at this Launchpad site ]

Note on bugs: If you have third-party PPAs (ie. other than ppa:savoury1/*)
on your system please do NOT report packaging conflicts or upgrade issues
(ie. APT package management wanting to remove packages due a conflict) as
the only setups I can possibly attempt to support are those that have only
my PPAs (ppa:savoury1/*) added. When any third-party PPAs are added it can
exponentially increase potential issues, due different people doing their
packaging in very different ways that can easily create package conflicts.

Much effort has been put into ensuring that SavOS PPAs (= ppa:savoury1/*)
work well with each other, but no time is put into making them work with
third-party PPAs. So if you have added PPAs from various third-parties to
your system then only YOU can possibly resolve packaging conflicts.. ;-)

*** Please DO NOT contact the Ubuntu Launchpad team about software at PPAs
as that is NOT their responsibility! Do NOT expect "full" FFmpeg builds to
be available to you if you have not donated. Only those who have donated
will have access to FFmpeg builds with all supported features. All future
improvements to FFmpeg builds here will also only be for supporters. ***

*** 19 Apr 2023: Big thanks to a business patron of the PPAs, Ryan C.! ***
*** 4 Jul 2022: Big thanks to another top patron of the PPAs, Joel A.! ***
*** 6 Apr 2022: Big thanks to another #1 patron of the work, Frank B.! ***
*** 2 Apr 2022: Big thanks to the now #1 patron of this work, Alan L.! ***

*** Information about "subscriber only" access to the new private PPA: ***

People have been writing to me asking what amount of donation is required
for access to the private PPA. In response to this question, know that any
possible access to the private PPA will be at my discretion alone. So know
that donating will not automatically give you such access. Various factors
will be considered before granting access, including whether or not use of
the private PPA will be for a profit-making enterprise (paragraph below).
It is up to you to be ethical, honest, and responsible about the donation
amount you give. Details such as personal income, means, and situation do
vary considerably, as well as if the PPAs are for personal use or profit.

BUSINESS ENTERPRISES: If you are donating for any profit-making enterprise
then I directly request that you state this fact honestly and openly when
your donation is made (as well as stating the specific business or company
name that is wanting access to the private PPA based on your donation). If
anyone is found to be misrepresenting themselves (ie. not stating that use
of the private PPA is for profit-making purposes) then private PPA access
will be denied. It is sad that such statements are so necessary. But there
are many profit-making enterprises using my PPA work here (a known fact to
me now) and almost none have ever donated one dollar (totally unethical!).

People often write me asking for specific work to be done who haven't even
made a donation. Please understand that this project is a huge commitment,
at least 3,500+ hours since August 2019 by now. Those who contribute many
hours to the free software movement still have to eat and pay their bills.
For the free software movement to grow and find a larger global user base
it is important that more people using free software (who can afford doing
so) provide direct support via donations for those doing the work to make
free software available. Free software is free to use as you wish, without
corporate/proprietary limits, but all doing the work can't live for free.

   *** Current target series: Xenial, Bionic, Focal, and Jammy LTS ***

Long Term Support (LTS) releases are the main focus at this site. If still
running a Xenial-based system now that the five year LTS maintenance time
period has expired then it is recommended to enable ESM (Extended Security
Maintenance) with Ubuntu Pro (now in beta) covering five systems for free.

https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-16-04-lts-transitions-to-extended-security-
maintenance-esm for further details and https://ubuntu.com/pro to sign up.

For Xenial users backports of GTK, Qt, KDE, Java (incl. JDK 11), and other
software stacks from Bionic allows running most new software on Xenial-era
systems. The reliability of a Xenial core, plus the bonus of new software.

      *** Highlights of packages in PPAs at this Launchpad site ***

See the table below for highlights of software published at this Launchpad
site. Source packages in their own PPA (eg. Curl) are also then copied to
a collection PPA (eg. Curl -> Utilities). Some packages with the same name
are in more than one PPA for distinct versions (eg. FFmpeg 4.4.4 & 6.0).

============+=============================================================
 Collection | Highlights of packages included
============+=============================================================

   Chromium = chromium-browser (117.0.5938.132 latest stable release)

    Firefox = firefox (115.0+build2 for all series but Focal, which has
              equivalent package already in official Ubuntu repositories)

    digiKam = digikam, exiv2 (0.27.6), jasper (4.0.0), lensfun (0.3.3),
    (v7.10.0) opencv (4.5.4 Jammy / 4.2.0 imath rebuilds), openexr, qtav
              (1.13.0 libswresample rebuilds), tiff (4.4.0), x265 (3.5)

       GIMP = babl (0.1.106), exiv2, gegl (0.4.42), gimp, gmic (2.9.7),
   (v2.10.34) jasper, jpeg-xl (0.7.0), lcms2 (2.14), libde265 (1.0.11),
              libheif (1.16.2), libmypaint (1.6.0), libraw (0.20.2),
              libspiro (20221101), mypaint-brushes, nufraw (0.43-3),
              poppler (22.02.0), skcms (0.0~20220520)

   Inkscape = cairo, harfbuzz (6.0.0), inkscape (1.2.2 Focal & Jammy only,
     (v1.2.2) 1.0.2 Bionic, 0.92.5 Xenial or ppa:savoury1/gtk-xenial with
              GTK 3.22 for 1.0.2), pango1.0 (1.42.4), poppler

    Scribus = fontconfig (2.13.1), freetype (2.12.1), hunspell (1.7.1),
     (v1.5.8) scribus (1.5.6.1 Focal / 1.4.8 Xenial & Bionic), scribus-ng
              (1.5.5 Xenial & Bionic), scribus-qt (1.5.8 Xenial, Bionic &
              Focal use with Qt 5.15 backports see ppa:savoury1/qt-5-15)

    Blender = alembic-io (1.8.5), blender, blender-293 (2.93.18 old LTS),
     (v3.6.4) blender-lts (3.3.11), collada-dom (2.5.0), embree (3.13.4),
              llvm-toolchain-14 (14.0.6), nanovdb (32.3-3), opencollada
              (1.6.68), opencolorio (2.2.1), openimagedenoise (1.4.3),
              openimageio (2.4.15.0), openjpeg2, openscenegraph (3.6.5),
              openshadinglanguage (1.12.13.0), opensubdiv (3.5.0), openvdb
              (9.1.0), python3.9 (3.9.18), python3.10 (3.10.13), robin-map
              (1.0.1), tbb (2020.3), usd (22.11), yaml-cpp (0.7.0)
              [ also requires ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg for successful install ]

        mpv = mpv, mujs (1.3.0), playerctl (2.4.1), vapoursynth (55)
    (v0.36.0) [ also requires ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg for successful install ]

      VLC 3 = dav1d, fluidsynth, libdvdnav (6.1.1), libdvdread (6.1.3),
    (v3.0.19) libebml (1.4.4), libmatroska (1.7.1), libmicrodns (0.1.0),
(pre-release) libspatialaudio, lirc (0.10.1 bugfix), protobuf (3.12.4),
              srt (1.5.2), taglib (1.13.1), vlc, x264 (0.164.3101), x265
              [ also requires ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg for successful install ]

  Handbrake = handbrake (1.6.2, 1.1.2 Xenial or ppa:savoury1/gtk-xenial)
              [ also requires ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg for successful install ]

   FFmpeg 6 = chromaprint, ffmpeg, highway, jpeg-xl, lcms2, skcms
       (v6.0) [ also requires ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg for successful install ]

   FFmpeg 5 = chromaprint, ffmpeg, highway, jpeg-xl, lcms2, skcms
     (v5.1.3) [ also requires ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg for successful install ]

   FFmpeg 4 = aom (3.6.1), aribb24, codec2 (1.0.5), dav1d (1.2.1), ffmpeg,
     (v4.4.4) fluidsynth (2.3.3), gst-{libav,python}1.0 (1.20.6 for gst*),
              gst-plugins-{bad,base,good,ugly}1.0, gstreamer{-vaapi,1.0},
              intel-gmmlib (22.3.12), intel-media-{driver,driver-non-free}
              (23.2.4), intel-mediasdk (23.2.2), libbluray (1.3.3),
              libdvd{nav,read}, libmysofa (1.3.1), libsdl2 (2.28.2),
              libva{-utils} (2.19.0), libvpx (1.12.0), rubberband (3.0.0),
              sndio (1.9.0), srt, x264, x265

LibreOffice = libreoffice (6.4.7 for Xenial/Bionic & 7.1.7 also for Focal,
              with better builds of 7.4.7 coming soon for all Ubuntu LTS)

      GPG 2 = gnupg2, gpa, gpgme1.0, libassuan, libgcrypt20 (1.10.1),
    (v2.2.41) libgpg-error (1.46), libksba (1.6.3), p11-kit, python-gnupg

 Encryption = argon2 (0~20190702), botan (2.19.3), gnutls28 (3.7.3),
              gsasl (2.2.0), keepass2 (2.51.1), keepassxc (2.7.6),
              libsodium (1.0.18+git20220815), libssh (0.10.4), m2crypto
              (0.38.0), mbedtls (2.28.2), minisign (0.10+git20220610),
              nettle (3.7.3), ocserv (1.1.6), openssl (1.1.1w), openvpn
              (2.4.12), pycryptodome (3.11.0), pyopenssl (21.0.0),
              pysodium (0.7.12), python-cryptography (3.3.2), radcli
              (1.2.12), tpm2-tss (2.4.6), unbound (1.16.2), veracrypt
              (1.25.9 from ppa:unit193/encryption), zxcvbn-c (2.5)

   Graphics = cairo (1.16.0), darktable (4.2.1), djvulibre (3.5.28),
              enblend-enfuse (4.2), entangle (3.0), exiv2, gdk-pixbuf,
              geeqie (1.7.3), gexiv2 (0.12.1), ghostscript (9.55.0),
              giflib (5.1.9), gphoto2 (2.5.28), gmic (2.9.7), graphviz
              (2.42.2), gthumb (3.12.3), gtkimageview (1.6.4), hugin
              (2021.0.0), ilmbase (3.1.9 = imath), ilmbase25 (2.5.8),
              imagej (1.53t), imlib (1.7.4), jasper, jbig2dec (0.19),
              jpeg-xl, jxrlib (1.2~git), leptonlib (1.79.0), lerc (3.0),
              libavif (0.11.1), libemf (1.0.13), libexif (0.6.24),
              libgav1, libgd2 (2.3.0), libgphoto2 (2.5.29), libheif
              (1.14.2), libjpeg-turbo (2.1.2), libpng1.6 (1.6.39), libraw,
              libsixel (1.10.3), libvigraimpex (1.11.1), libwebp (1.3.0),
              libwmf (0.2.12), libyuv (0.0.1857), nufraw, opencv, openexr
              (3.1.11), openexr25 (2.5.8), openjpeg2 (2.4.0), rawtherapee
              (5.8), skcms, tesseract (4.1.1), tiff (4.4.0), vtk6 (6.3.0),
              vtk7 (7.1.1), xscreensaver (6.06)

 Multimedia = alsa-{lib,plugins,tools,*-conf,utils} (1.2.2 Xenial/Bionic),
              aom, ardour (6.9.0), aribb24 (1.0.3+git), audacity (3.3.3),
              cecilia (5.4.1), chromaprint (1.5.1), codec2, dav1d, espeak,
              faad2 (2.10.0), fdk-aac (2.0.2), flac (1.4.3), flite (2.2),
              frei0r (1.8.0), grilo{-plugins}, gst-{libav,python}1.0,
              gst-plugins-{bad,base,good,ugly}1.0, gstreamer{-vaapi,1.0},
              guitarix (0.44.1), guvcview (2.0.8), hydrogen (1.1.1+git),
              intel-gmmlib, intel-media-driver{-non-free}, ir.lv2 (1.3.4),
              jackd2 (1.9.21), kdenlive (22.04.1 Focal/Jammy), ladspa-sdk,
              libass (0.16.0), libbluray, libburn (1.5.4), libdca (0.0.7),
              libde265, libdvd{nav,read}, libebml, libebur128 (1.2.6),
              libgav1 (0.18.0), libisoburn (1.5.4), libkeyfinder (2.2.6),
              libldac (2.0.2.3+git20200429), libmatroska, libmtp (1.1.19),
              libmysofa, libnice (0.1.21), libogg (1.3.5), libopenmpt
              (0.7.2), *modplug (0.8.9.0-openmpt1-2), libopusenc (0.2.1),
              librist (0.2.7), librnnoise, libsamplerate (0.2.2), libsbsms
              (2.2.0), libsdl{1.2,2} (& more sdl 1.2/2), libshout (2.4.6),
              libshout-idjc (2.4.4), libsndfile (1.0.31), libsoxr (0.1.3),
              libsrtp2 (2.5.0), libstb, libusrsctp, libva{-utils},
              libvorbis (1.3.7), libvpx, lilv (0.24.12), linphone
              (4.4.35), linphone-desktop (4.2.5 Focal/Jammy and for other
              see ppa:savoury1/qt-5-15), lirc, lmms (1.2.2), lsp-plugins
              (1.1.30), lv2 (1.18.2), mda-lv2 (1.2.6), mediainfo (23.09),
              mediastreamer2 (4.4.35), mixxx (2.3.5), mlt (7.12.0),
              monkeys-audio (10.20), mpg123 (1.31.2), muse (4.1.0+git),
              musescore2 (2.3.2), musescore3 (3.2.3), norm (1.5.9), obs-
              studio (29.0.2), openal-soft (1.23.1), openh264 (2.3.1),
              opus (1.3.1), orc (0.4.33), ortp (4.4.34), picard, pipewire
              (0.3.66), pipewire-media-session (0.4.2), pocketsphinx,
              portaudio19 (19.7.0), pysdl2 (0.9.7), qsynth (0.9.9),
              qtractor (0.9.30), rosegarden (22.12.1), rtaudio (5.2.0),
              rtmidi (5.0.0), rubberband, sbc (1.5), serd (0.30.10), simde
              (0.7.2), sndio, sord (0.16.8), soundtouch (2.3.1), speech-
              dispatcher (0.11.1), speex{dsp} (1.2.0), sratom (0.6.8),
              srt, suil (0.10.10), taglib, v4l-utils (1.22.1),
              v4l2loopback (0.12.5), vamp-plugin-sdk (2.10.0), vorbis-
              tools (1.4.2), wavpack (5.6.0), x264, x265, xine-lib-1.2
              (1.2.12), xine-ui (0.99.13), youtube-dl (2021.12.17),
              youtube-dlg, yt-dlp (2023.03.04), zam-plugins (3.14),
              zeromq3 (4.3.4), zimg (3.0.4), zita-convolver (4.0.3)

      Games = dbgl (0.83 DOSBox Game Launcher), doomsday (2.3.1), dosbox
              (0.74-3 bugfix), fizmo-{console,ncursesw,sdl2} (Z-Machine
              interpreter), gnuchess (6.2.7), libsdl2, mame (0.258),
              openttd (12.2 Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe), quakespasm
              (0.96.0~git), retroarch (1.14.0), scummvm{-tools} (2.7.0),
              stockfish (14.1), yquake2 (8.21~pre1+vk1.0.5-git+ctf1.0.9)

    Display = egl-wayland (1.1.9), emerald{-themes} (0.8.18), glfw3,
              intel-compute-runtime (22.49.25018.24), *gpu-tools (1.26),
              *graphics-compiler (1.0.12812.26), *vaapi-driver{-shaders}
              (2.4.1), *vc-intrinsics (0.11.0), khronos-opencl-{clhpp,
              headers} (3.0~2022.09.30), libdrm (2.4.115), libepoxy
              (1.5.10), libglu (9.0.2), libglvnd (1.6.0), libva{-utils},
              libvdpau (1.5), llvm-toolchain-15 (15.0.7), mesa (23.1.8),
              mesa-amber (21.3.9), mir (1.7.1), ocl-icd (2.2.14), opencl-
              clang-15 (15.0.0), spirv-llvm-translator-15 (15.0.0),
              vdpauinfo (1.5), vulkan-{loader,tools,validationlayers},
              wayland (1.20.0), wayland-protocols (1.31), xorg (7.7+19),
              xorg-server (1.20.13), xorgproto (2021.5), xserver-
              xorg-{input-*,video-*} (various backported X.Org X server
              input and video drivers)

   Virtual- = acpica-unix (20200925), augeaus (1.13.0), ceph (12.2.13 for
   isation .. Xenial only), device-tree-compiler (1.6.1), dmidecode (3.4),
              gfs2-utils (3.3.0), glusterfs (7.2), infinipath-psm, ipxe,
              libfabric (1.11.0), libiscsi (1.19.0), libnftnl (1.2.2),
              libosinfo (1.10.0), libpsm2 (11.2.185), libslirp, libtirpc,
              libvirt (8.10.0), *dbus (1.4.1), *{glib,php,python}, lsscsi
              (0.31), lxc/lxd (3.0.4 Xenial & Bionic), ndctl, nfs-utils,
              nftables (1.0.4), osinfo-db (20221130), parted (3.5),
              pci.ids (0.0~2023.01.14), pciutils (3.7.0), qemu (7.2),
              rdma-core (28.0), seabios, spice (0.15.0), spice-protocol,
              supermin (5.2.1), usb.ids (2023.01.16), virglrenderer
              (0.9.1), virt-manager (4.1.0), virt-p2v (1.42.3), virt-v2v
              (1.45.99), vmem, xen (4.11.3+24), xfsprogs (5.13.0)

  Backports = 7zip (22.01), aria2 (1.36.0), bash (5.1.16), bcmwl (kernel
              5.10 fixes), claws-mail (3.18.0), clonezilla (5.3.6), curl
              (7.87.0), deluge (2.0.3), dnscrypt-proxy (2.0.45), e2fsprogs
              (1.46.5), exfat-utils (1.3.0), exfatprogs (1.2.0), f2fs-
              tools (1.15.0), filezilla (3.64.0), flatpak (1.12.7),
              freerdp2 (2.9.0), fuse{-exfat}, gawk (5.1.1), git (2.41.0),
              grep (3.7), hexchat (2.14.3), htop (3.2.1), hwloc (2.8.0),
              inxi (3.3.24), libarchive (3.6.0), libdeflate (1.14), libidn2
              (2.3.2), libjsoncpp (1.9.5), libpsl (0.21.0), libvncserver
              (0.9.13), libxml2 (2.9.13), libzstd (1.5.2), lz4 (1.9.4),
              lzip (1.23), mat2 (0.13.2), mate-dock-applet (21.10), mupdf
              (1.21.1), nano (7.2), nasm (2.16.01), nghttp2 (1.51.0),
              ntfs-3g (2022.10.3), onetbb (2021.9.0), p7zip{-rar} (16.02),
              partclone (0.3.22), parted, poppler (22.02.0), publicsuffix
              (20221208), remmina (1.4.31), rsync (3.2.7), sed (4.9),
              smartmontools (7.3), sqlite3 (3.37.2), tar (1.34), tigervnc
              (1.12.0), tinyxml2 (9.0.0), variety (0.8.10), wget (1.21.3),
              winetricks (20230212), wireshark (3.6.8), xapian-core
              (1.4.18), xxhash (0.8.1), xz-utils (5.4.1), yaml-cpp (0.6.3)

  Utilities = 4pane (8.0), gparted (1.4.0), indicator-sound-switcher
              (2.3.9), mainline, mc (4.8.29), meld (3.20.4), metamorphose2
              (0.9.0~beta), minisign (0.10), psensor (1.2.2~git20210506),
              rar (6.20), redshift (1.12), unrar-nonfree (6.2.8), ukuu
              (18.9.3), vnstat (2.11), xarchiver (0.5.4.21), xfe (1.45)

Build Tools = abseil (0~20220623.1), cmake (3.22.6), cowdancer (0.89),
              debhelper (11.3.5 Xenial & Bionic with patches), debootstrap
              (1.0.125), distro-info (1.0), distro-info-data (0.56), dput
              (1.1.2), dwz (0.14), git-buildpackage (0.9.20), help2man
              (1.49.2), libeatmydata (130), libtg{owt,voip}, lintian
              (2.104), meson (1.0.1), ninja-build (1.11.1), pbuilder
              (0.231), pristine-tar (1.49), scour (0.38.2), shellcheck,
              vala (0.48.25 LTS), valgrind (3.17.0), zeroc-ice (3.7.6)

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About versions: The dash symbol (right-most dash if more than one) divides
the "source version" (upstream) from "package version" (Ubuntu). A package
version starting with "0ubuntu1~" can show the package was not in Debian
(also possibly not in Ubuntu) when built, and a version that starts with
"1ubuntu0~" shows the package was in Debian but not in Ubuntu when built.

Also, at this Launchpad site the number after the tag ("sav") follows two
simple rules. If a "no-change" rebuild (no changes to package code at all,
only to debian/changelog) the number increments by 0.1 (ie. ~16.04.sav0.1
after the official package version means a no-change rebuild of the Xenial
package at this site has been done). Rebuilds including packaging changes
(anything in debian/* apart from the changelog text) increment the number
to the next integer (ie. ~16.04.sav0.1 will be incremented to ~16.04.sav1
if a new build is done including any changes at all to packaging code).

Furthermore, if the local package version starts with + (ie. +16.04.sav0)
this is sometimes to show an intentional superseding of a version in the
default Ubuntu repositories. This is done when a rebuild (eg. against the
new OpenEXR/Imath graphics libraries, superseding older OpenEXR/IlmBase)
results in a package updated beyond the official Debian/Ubuntu version.

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* Copyright note: The "SavOS" name & logo are copyright (C) Rob Savoury *

Background: Major uploads to this Launchpad site began in the last quarter
of 2019 to make similar upgrades of various useful software running on my
systems (via local builds) available to a wide audience. This project has
now grown into one of backporting significant amounts of popular, useful
and security critical software for the past 7+ years of Ubuntu versions.

-----START USUAL DISCLAIMER-----

Note: There is absolutely no warranty offered and no liability assumed for
any of the software packages published at this Launchpad site (meaning at
any and all of the PPAs found here). The software published here may work
well for you or it may not work at all and absolutely no responsibility is
taken or assumed by me for anything that happens due use of this software.

-----END USUAL DISCLAIMER-----

Bugs: Please report any bugs you find with any of these packages, as I am
very much open to improvements. The available packages work well for me on
my systems and also in various Ubuntu virtual machines setup for testing.

YMMV as is said in 21st century acronym-speak, with the computer field a
truly vast repository (pardon the pun) of so many of the cryptic, obscure,
and convoluted acronyms ever known (and mostly unknown) to humankind! ;-)