[Ubuntu] Adding saga 2.1.0 to ubuntugis

[Johan Van de Wauw]

Everyone,

I waited a little for the release of wxwidgets 3.0, which happened 2 days ago.
Since I see no objection to my plan I will continue and push the
updates to testing. If grass still builds fine there I will copy to
-unstable.

Johan

On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Johan Van de Wauw
<johan.vandewauw at gmail.com> wrote:
> On the live dvd I guess there was no issue because qgis did not rely
> on gdal from ubuntugis (which causes the error).
>
> About wx 2.9, I guess people expected that it would become the stable
> line much faster, and in fact you will read on the website that you
> should use it for new projects rather than wx 2.8.
> In fact the release of 3.0 is on the roadmap for this month:
> http://trac.wxwidgets.org/wiki/Roadmap .
>
> Johan
>
> On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:
>> On 09/30/2013 11:36 PM, Alex Mandel wrote:
>>> On 09/30/2013 11:32 PM, Johan Van de Wauw wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I would like to add saga 2.1.0 to ubuntugis. This would solve the
>>>> problem for those users who would like to run qgis 2.0 with the last
>>>> version of saga (which actually is a bug in gdal). See eg [1].
>>>>
>>>> The package already exists and has been tested by quite a number of
>>>> users on my ppa[2], and it is part of the osgeo live dvd.
>>>>
>>>> The problem is that saga relies on a new version of wxwidgets (2.9)
>>>> which may break building grass gis if it is just added to the ppa.
>>>> This can be solved by renaming the package wx-common to eg
>>>> wx-common-29 and making it conflict with wx-common. That way all
>>>> existing wx-widgets programs will still work and build fine unless a
>>>> build-dependency is made to wx-common-29.
>>>> Anyone opposed to this solution? If needed I can first upload
>>>> everything to testing to make sure it really works.
>>>>
>>>> Johan
>>>>
>>>> [1] http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/72957/installing-qgis-2-0-and-saga-2-1-on-ubuntu-13-04
>>>> [2]https://launchpad.net/~johanvdw/+archive/saga-gis
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>
>>>
>>> Uploading to Ubuntugis-testing sounds like a good plan.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Alex
>>>
>>
>> Now that I think about it how did we manage to get QGIS/GRASS etc from
>> ubuntugis and SAGA from your ppa if there is a conflict?
>>
>> Maybe I'm not understanding this package naming resolution.
>>
>> I'm also curious about wx 2.9 and why that's a requirement, according to
>> wx project 2.8.x is the current stable line. Don't let this hold you up,
>> I'm just curious for knowledge sake.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alex