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by blacksmith_tb 3610 days ago
It seems like if you install a package via a Launchpad PPA, you can be confident it will receive updates along with the rest of your installed packages; if it was from github, you'd have to add a cronjob to pull updates or something else along those lines, which would be more prone to (silently) fail. Though my general experience of PPAs is that they are fairly failure-prone themselves...