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KiCad 8.0rc2 not update to Nigthly automatically in dev PPA

Description

I have the sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kicad/kicad-dev-nightly PPA added at Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and I was with the 8.0rc2 installed from this PPA (after update from 7.99). But it didn't update to 8.99 automatically in Feb/March of 2024. I checked the behavior in two different machines (same OS).

It is the second that this has happened, the first one was from 7.0rc* update to 7.99 nightlies. To workaround this I sudo apt purge *kicad* && sudo apt install kicad-nightly in both times.

See that in neither machines nor events (8.0rc to 8.99 or 7.0rc to 7.99) I have changed the PPA (removed or readded). As Seth_h shows me in https://forum.kicad.info/t/is-the-nigthly-ubuntus-ppa-stoped/50565 the dpkg --compare-versions appears fine, maybe some packing minor issue?

Steps to reproduce

KiCad Version

Application: KiCad x86_64 on x86_64

Version: 8.0.0~rc2-1e5b68cb87~176~ubuntu22.04.1, release build

Libraries:
	wxWidgets 3.2.1
	FreeType 2.11.1
	HarfBuzz 2.7.4
	FontConfig 2.13.1

Platform: Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK, X11, ubuntu, wayland

	wxWidgets: 3.2.1 (wchar_t,wx containers) GTK+ 3.24
	Boost: 1.74.0
	OCC: 7.5.2
	Curl: 7.81.0
	ngspice: 40
	Compiler: GCC 11.4.0 with C++ ABI 1016

Build settings: