Is the vim-daily launchpad.net PPA still functioning?

It says on vim PPA manager Jonathon F's launchpad page that:

"This account belonged to a deceased user and has been archived."

(In fact, Jonathon F. died in January of 2023.)

But on the vim-daily PPA page, it can be seen that vim has been updated as of 01 December 2023 for Ubuntu versions 22.04.1, 20.04.1 and 18.04.1:

vim 2:9.0.0749+really.v9.0.2143-0york0~ubuntu22.04.1 Jonathon F (2023-12-01)

So, it appears that someone is still updating the vim-daily PPA.

However, I have had vim-daily in my /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ for some time, but my vim has been stuck for a few weeks now at version 9.0.1837, and has not upgraded to 9.0.2143.

I've checked to make sure I have the source entry correct, but updated vims are not being installed. If vim is being updated on the PPA, shouldn't the updates be getting installed on my machine?

Does anyone know what's going on with this? Thanks.

This was also asked here on Ubuntu Forums

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